A Mobile Health Intervention to Increase Uptake of Prenatal Care in Syrian Refugee Population in Turkey
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 162
- 主要终点
- Rate of attendance for prenatal care visits
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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:
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
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 49 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Having the status of "Syrian under temporary protection"
- •Being in the first trimester of the pregnancy
- •Initial prenatal visit
- •Age equal or greater than 18 years and less than or equal to 49
排除标准
- •Having a citizenship or a status other than "Syrian under temporary protection"
- •Not owning a mobile phone
- •Being unable to read and write
- •Not initial prenatal visit
- •Having a chronic disorder or high-risk pregnancy that requires the individual to go to the hospital frequently. Frequently is defined as more than 3 visits post the baseline visit.
- •While gestating, those that develop a high-risk pregnancy that requires more than 3 visits post the baseline visit.
结局指标
主要结局
Rate of attendance for prenatal care visits
时间窗: 6 months
The number of 4 mandatory prenatal care appointments that are attended are presented here.
次要结局
- Sociodemographic and Health information form data(6 months)