The Scale-Up of a Digital Health Intervention (Healthy Beginnings for HNEKids) Targeting the First 2000 Days: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital health interventions, delivered directly to parents' mobile phones, could transform the delivery of health care during the first 2000 days of a child's life. Healthy Beginnings for Hunter New England Kids (HB4HNEKids) is an innovative SMS text message-based model of care that provides age-and-stage relevant preventative health information to parents during the first 2000 days. While HB4HNEKids demonstrates promise for population-wide scale-up, the optimal method for achieving universal, cost-efficient, and equitable scale-up remains unclear.

Objective

This protocol outlines a randomized controlled trial that evaluates 2 models for scaling up HB4HNEKids: an "opt-in" clinician-initiated model (intervention) and an "opt-out" system-initiated model (control).

SUBMITTER: Brown AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12717509 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature