A study to assess the effect of a text message intervention using mobile phones to promote clinical antenatal uptake and institutional deliveries among young expectant women in Kwale County, Kenya.
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Registration Number
- PACTR202105818874512
- Lead Sponsor
- World Health Organization HRP Alliance for Research Capacity Strengthening
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 856
Inclusion Criteria
•Expectant young women aged 24 years and below residing within the study setting
•Expectant young women with a gestational age not exceeding 24 weeks
•Expectant young women with uneventful first and second trimesters
•Have their own mobile phone at the time of recruitment
•Can read and write either English and/or Swahili
•Consenting eligible participants
Exclusion Criteria
Expectant young women presenting with complications including hyperemesis gravidarum, placenta Previa, gestational hypertension, gestational diabetes mellitus, preeclampsia and iron deficiency anaemia.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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