NCT01878435CompletedNot Applicable
Randomized Controlled Trial of the Impact of Mobile Phone Delivered Reminders and Travel Subsidies to Improve Childhood Immunization Coverage Rates and Timeliness in Western Kenya
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health1 site in 1 country2,018 target enrollmentStarted: October 1, 2013Last updated:
Conditions
Interventions
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 2,018
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Percent of children immunized
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The project goal is to conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test whether mobile phone short message system (SMS) reminders, either with or without mobile-phone based travel subsidies will improve timeliness, coverage, and drop-out rates of routine EPI vaccines in rural western Kenya.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 0 Weeks to 5 Weeks (Child)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Mother of infant aged 0-4 weeks during the study period
- •Current resident of one of the study villages
- •Willing to sign informed consent for the study
Exclusion Criteria
- •Plans to move out of the study area in the next 6 months
- •Resides in a village with active immunization intervention/program
- •Has already received immunizations other than birth dose of BCG or polio
Arms & Interventions
SMS reminder
Experimental
Intervention: SMS reminder (Other)
SMS reminder and Travel subsidy
Experimental
Intervention: Travel subsidy (Other)
SMS reminder and Travel subsidy
Experimental
Intervention: SMS reminder (Other)
Control
No Intervention
SMS reminder and Travel subsidy 2
Experimental
Intervention: SMS reminder (Other)
SMS reminder and Travel subsidy 2
Experimental
Intervention: Travel subsidy 2 (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Percent of children immunized
Time Frame: Up to 12 months of age
Secondary Outcomes
- Percent of fully immunized children (FIC) by study arm(10 months of age)
- Proportion of children vaccinated by study arm(Within 2 weeks of each scheduled vaccine date)
- Vitamin A coverage, o evaluate if the interventions had impact on other indicators of health status(Age 12 months)
- Height-for-age,to evaluate if the interventions had impact on other health status indicators(Age 12 months)
- Proportion of children dropping out between doses(Age 24 weeks)
- Direct costs for each intervention arm(25 months, approximate time period for deploying interventions)
- Proportion of children receiving measles and pentavalent vaccines by study arm(Age 24 weeks (pentavalent only), 10 months and age 12 months)
- Proportion in each arm vaccinated by mobile phone ownership and by residential distance from a health facility(Age 12 months)
- Bed-net usage, to evaluate if the interventions had impact on other indicators of health status(Age 12 months)
Investigators
Study Sites (1)
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