Impact Evaluation of the Pilot SMS Mother Reminder System

Effects of the SMS Mother Reminder System on Use of Health Care. Clinical Trial

Official title:

Impact Evaluation of the Pilot SMS Mother Reminder System

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02121821
• Other study ID #: MSH-001
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 22, 2014
• Last updated: April 22, 2014
• Start date: May 2014
• Est. completion date: September 2015

Study information

• Verified date: April 2014
• Source: African Strategies for Health
• Contact: Lungi Okoko, MPH
• Phone: +1 703-667-3722
• Email: lokoko[@]as4h.org
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Uganda: Mildmay Uganda research and Ethics Committee (MUREC)
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study aims to assess the effects of the SMS Mother Reminder system on use of health care in Uganda. A secondary aim of the study is to determine the behavioral factors and cost-effectiveness, as well as test the usability of the SMS Mother Reminder in Uganda.

Description:

USAID/Uganda is commissioning a prospective impact evaluation of the initial SMS component of Uganda's National Health Record Program (NHRP) in order to inform strategic targeting of eHealth and future investments after the pilot phase of the NHRP mobile platform "SMS Mother Reminder". This impact evaluation will be designed to answer the following questions:

Primary evaluation question:

• What is the effect on maternal health outcomes (ANC4 and IPTP2) of the village health teams' use of the SMS Mother Reminder system?

Secondary evaluation questions:

• What factors most influence changes in health workers, village health teams and expectant women's knowledge, attitudes and practices in maternal health?

• To what extent is using the SMS Mother Reminder application to track and inform pregnant women a cost-effective intervention from the perspectives of USAID?

• To what extent can users easily carry out specific tasks (e.g. entering the information of pregnant women) of the SMS Mother Reminder application on mobile devices?

This study is funded by USAID through the African Strategies for Health project.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 11454
• Est. completion date: September 2015
• Est. primary completion date: May 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Effects of the SMS Mother Reminder System on Use of Health Care.

Intervention

Behavioral:
• SMS reminder messages
The study is prospective and interventional comparing differences between pregnant women who receive reminder messages via the SMS Mother Reminder system to those who are not. Pregnant women will be followed from their first ANC visit at a health facility through delivery. The study will examine the effect of the mobile phone intervention on attendance to ANC appointments and IPTP2 coverage. The intervention group will be composed of pregnant women receiving SMS reminder messages in comparison with a control group of pregnant women receiving no intervention (i.e. no SMS reminders).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Uganda	Gulu District Health Centers	Gulu

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
African Strategies for Health	United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Uganda, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	ANC visits	Pregnant women attend 4 Antenatal care visits (ANC)	1 year	No
Primary	SP doses	Pregnant women receive at least 2 doses of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP).	1 year	No