Short message service communication improves exclusive breastfeeding and early postpartum contraception in a low- to middle-income country setting: a randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the effect of short message service (SMS) communication on facility delivery, exclusive breastfeeding (EBF), and contraceptive use.

Design

Mobile WACh was a three-arm unblinded individually randomised controlled trial.

Setting

A public sector maternal child health (MCH) clinic in Nairobi, Kenya.

Population

Three hundred women attending antenatal care were randomised, 100 to each arm, and followed for 24 weeks postpartum. Pregnant women, at least 14 years old with access to a mobile phone and able to read SMS were eligible for participation.

Methods

Women were randomised (1:1:1) to receive one-way SMS versus two-way SMS with a nurse versus control. Weekly SMS content was tailored for maternal characteristics and pregnancy or postpartum

SUBMITTER: Unger JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6179930 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature