Mobile Phone Messaging to Improve Women's and Children's Health (Mobile WACh) in Kenya

Maternal Health Clinical Trial

— Mobile WACh  

Official title:

Mobile Phone One Way Short Message Service (SMS) Versus SMS Dialogue for Women's and Child Health (Mobile WACh) in Kenya: A Randomized Control Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01894126
• Other study ID #: K12HD001264-14UNGER
• Secondary ID: K12HD001264-14
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 2, 2013
• Last updated: November 7, 2016
• Start date: July 2013

Study information

• Verified date: November 2016
• Source: University of Washington
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review BoardKenya: Ethics Review Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

With the increased prevalence of cellular phones, mobile technology provides an important tool to reach underserved populations in low to middle income countries. mHealth interventions offer promise to improve maternal child health throughout the reproductive health continuum if they contribute to increasing skilled birth attendance, family planning and exclusive breastfeeding. We propose a randomized clinical trial to determine effect of using mobile phones to deliver SMS (one-way) versus an interactive SMS dialogue (two-way) on uptake of reproductive and neonatal health services and maternal and infant outcomes

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 300
• Est. primary completion date: July 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 14 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant

• Access to a mobile phone

• Able to read SMS messages

• Willing to receive SMS messages

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwilling or unable to meet inclusion criteria

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Family Planning
• Maternal Health
• Neonatal Health

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Two-way SMS Dialogue

• One-way SMS Messaging

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Kenya	Mathare North Health Centre	Nairobi

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Washington	Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Kenyatta National Hospital, National Institutes of Health (NIH), University of Nairobi

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Kenya, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Contraceptive uptake		10 weeks postpartum; 24 weeks postpartum	No
Primary	Facility Delivery		Postpartum	No
Primary	Exclusive Breastfeeding		24 weeks postpartum	No
Secondary	ANC attendance		Postpartum	No
Secondary	Infant Immunizations		Six months postpartum	No
Secondary	Maternal mortality		6 months postpartum	No
Secondary	Infant mortality		Six months postpartum	No