Mobile phone intervention reduces perinatal mortality in zanzibar: secondary outcomes of a cluster randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile phones are increasingly used in health systems in developing countries and innovative technical solutions have great potential to overcome barriers of access to reproductive and child health care. However, despite widespread support for the use of mobile health technologies, evidence for its role in health care is sparse.

Objective

We aimed to evaluate the association between a mobile phone intervention and perinatal mortality in a resource-limited setting.

Methods

This study was a pragmatic, cluster-randomized, controlled trial with primary health care facilities in Zanzibar as the unit of randomization. At their first antenatal care visit, 2550 pregnant women (1311 interventions and 1239 controls) who attended antenatal care at selected primary hea

SUBMITTER: Lund S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4114456 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature