Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Not yet recruiting
Administrative data
| NCT number |
NCT05094518 |
| Other study ID # |
HeraInc |
| Secondary ID |
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| Status |
Not yet recruiting |
| Phase |
N/A
|
| First received |
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| Last updated |
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| Start date |
December 1, 2021 |
| Est. completion date |
December 1, 2022 |
Study information
| Verified date |
October 2021 |
| Source |
HERA Inc |
| Contact |
Aral Surmeli, MD |
| Phone |
+905353140179 |
| Email |
a.surmeli[@]medak.org.tr |
| Is FDA regulated |
No |
| Health authority |
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| Study type |
Interventional
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Clinical Trial Summary
The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of mobile phone based appointment
reminder notifications sent through Health Recording App (HERA) in increasing the uptake of 4
World Health Organization recommended prenatal visits among Syrian refugee population.
Description:
Background: 12 million Syrians have been forcibly displaced from their homes since the start
of Syrian Civil War in 2011. Despite Turkey providing free healthcare services through
national insurance to nearly 4 million refugees that it hosts, pregnant Syrian women are less
likely to attend prenatal visits and more likely to die during and after labor. An increase
in the uptake of prenatal care may improve quality of life through healthy pregnancies and
safer labor conditions in this population with double vulnerability.
Mobile phone-based reminders have been shown in randomized controlled trials and systematic
reviews to increase the uptake of various services, including prenatal care. Mobile phone
penetration is high among Syrian refugees in Turkey and qualitative studies demonstrate that
mobile health interventions are acceptable and feasible for Syrian refugees.
Primary objective: To evaluate the impact of mobile phone-based reminders on the uptake of
prenatal care among pregnant Syrian refugee women. More specifically, the study assesses the
effectiveness of mobile phone-based reminders by measuring the percent increase in the number
of prenatal appointments attended by intervention arm participants compared to the control
arm participants.
Study design: This is a behavioral intervention study using an un-blinded, parallel groups,
randomized controlled study design.
Primary Outcome:
The primary outcome of this study is the number of medical visits, following the initial
baseline prenatal care visit, over the 6 month period prior to childbirth.
Secondary outcomes:
Secondary outcomes are based on the Sociodemographic and Health History form. The form
gathers information about demographics of the participants (age, education, employment,
marital status, number of children) and health history (previous pregnancies, delivery
methods, miscarriages, stillborn, chronic conditions and medications. We will further examine
these risk factors on the number of medical visits during the study period.
