MObile Technology for Improved Family Planning Services (MOTIF): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing women with contraceptive methods following abortion is important to reduce repeat abortion rates, yet evidence for effective post-abortion family planning interventions are limited. This protocol outlines the evaluation of a mobile phone-based intervention using voice messages to support post-abortion family planning in Cambodia.

Methods/design

A single blind randomised controlled trial of 500 participants. Clients aged 18 or over, attending for abortion at four Marie Stopes International clinics in Cambodia, owning a mobile phone and not wishing to have a child at the current time are randomised to the mobile phone-based intervention or control (standard care) with a 1:1 allocation ratio.The intervention comprises a series of six automated voice message

SUBMITTER: Smith C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4029778 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature