EFFECTS OF MOBILE PHONE TELE-REMINDER ON IRON STATUS AND DIET QUALITY OF PREGNANT WOMEN AVAILING ANTENATAL CARE AT PHEBE AND CHARLES B. DUNBAR HOSPITALS, BONG COUNTY, MONROVIA-LIBERIAA CLUSTER RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIA
- Conditions
- Nutritional, Metabolic, EndocrinePregnancy and Childbirth
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 150
In a cluster randomized control trial, the eligibility criteria will be applied to the hospitals
and the individual level of analysis. Hospitals with the highest antenatal care attendance,
equip medical and laboratory facilities and more screening facilities for ANC will be
selected for this study. Phebe and the Charles B. Dunbar hospitals are two centrally referral
hospitals located in Liberia with a high level of ANC attendance. These two hospitals will
be selected because they provide all the minimum recommended ANC services (drugs
availability, laboratory standard, and so on).
At the individual level, pregnant women availing ANC for the first time at the selected
hospitals will be the sample population. Additionally, Pregnant women with no chronic
medical problems, those accessible via mobile phone, and those who are willing to sign the
consent form will be eligible for this study. A total of 147 pregnant women will take part
in this study. Seventy-five (75) pregnant women will be assigned to each treatment arm.
As exclusion criteria, all pregnant women who have had prior ANC visits, those with
chronic health-related problems in pregnancy, those who are not reachable via mobile
phone, and finally those who will refuse to sign the consent form. Pregnant women who
have had prior ANC visits will be excluded because they have been exposed to other ANC
interventions that could affect the outcome variables
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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