A Mobile-health Pilot Experiment Targeting Mothers With Newborns in Rural Areas of San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala, in the Context of Exclusive Breastfeeding Practices
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 100
- 主要终点
- Number of Participants With Changes in Knowledge
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study was to determine whether exposure to m-health platforms promoting recommended breastfeeding practices was effective in transmitting the exclusive breastfeeding message to participant mothers, and in improving weight evolution of infants.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Care Provider)
入排标准
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Has a baby of less than 4 months of age OR is in her 8th month of pregnancy
排除标准
- •Cannot read
- •Does not have a newborn
结局指标
主要结局
Number of Participants With Changes in Knowledge
时间窗: December 2013 - May 2014, 23 weeks
Specifically, we were interested in: the number of participants who switched from an incorrect to a correct knowledge regarding exclusive breastfeeding during the experiment (learned the message); the number of participants who had a correct knowledge but switched to an incorrect one during the experiment (forgot the message); the number of participants who had an incorrect knowledge and kept it until the end of the experiment (continued to be unaware); the number of participants who had a correct knowledge and kept it until the end of the experiment (remembered the message).
次要结局
- Qualitative Nature of Health-related Text-messages(December 2013 - May 2014, 23 weeks)
- Number of Text-messages Exchanged in Virtual Communities(December 2013 - May 2014, 23 weeks)
- Mean Change in Weight-for-Age Z-score(Baseline at December 2013 and 23 weeks later in May 2014)
研究者
José Tomás PRIETO, PhD
Dr. Jose Tomas Prieto
Universidad Francisco Marroquín