Maternal Health Clinical Trial
— MatHealthOfficial title:
Using a Mobile Phone-based Multimedia Technology to Support Maternal Health in Rural Southwestern Uganda (MatHealth)
Verified date | June 2020 |
Source | Mbarara University of Science and Technology |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
The overall goal of the MatHealth project is to improve maternal health using an enhanced mobile phone-based multimedia application among illiterate women in rural southwestern Uganda. Building on a prototype of a mobile maternal health support technology developed as part of the on-going PhD research by one of our team members, The investigators will redesign the prototype to make it suitable for illiterate populations by engaging the local communities/prospective users to incorporate multimedia components such as videos and audios. Using the enhanced prototype, the investigators will carry out a reasonably large scale field study in Uganda, where the investigators will empirically implement the prototype among the rural community and assess its preliminary impact on maternal health. The investigators hypothesize that implementing the enhanced prototype will result in increased access to high quality, relevant local and culturally acceptable maternal health information that can enable mothers and families demonstrate improved health-seeking and preventative behaviors, including early uptake and adherence to antenatal check-ups and care including HIV testing, good nutrition, birth preparedness, dealing with danger signs, among others; all of which should ultimately contribute to improved maternal and child survival. The investigators will contribute to and benefit from a culture of continuous learning by engaging with the local/user communities, policy makers, and researchers to share lessons learned and best practices.This will potentially facilitate the translation of our research findings into medical care.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 80 |
Est. completion date | April 30, 2020 |
Est. primary completion date | April 30, 2020 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | Female |
Age group | 18 Years to 45 Years |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Initiating antenatal care at MRRH at the earliest presentation in the first and second trimester - Being illiterate—not having studied beyond primary seven or elementary education - Being able to access electricity or any other form of power to charge a phone - Age >18 years; - Residents of Mbarara, i.e. within 20 km of the MRRH - Willing and able to give informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: - At the earliest presentation in the third trimester - Being Literate—having studied beyond primary seven or elementary education - Age <18 years; - Not Residents of Mbarara, i.e. Beyond 20 km of the MRRH - Not Willing and unable to give informed consent. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Uganda | Mbarara Site | Mbarara |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Mbarara University of Science and Technology |
Uganda,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Adherence to antenatal visits | The investigators will use Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) to determine the mean (standard deviation), median (interquartile range), and number of missed antenatal visits by participants as determined by the hospital antenatal records. | 24 Weeks | |
Secondary | Maternal health knowledge and attitudes | The investigators will assess the level of knowledge about maternal related information among the intervention and control group through administering questionnaires to ascertain the level of significance between the intervention and control groups. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Scientists). Paired sample t-test will be used to determine the level of significance. | 12 weeks |
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