Family Planning Reminder Systems: An Updated Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Context

The objective of this systematic review was to update a prior review and summarize the evidence on the impact of family planning reminder systems (e.g., daily text messages reminding oral contraception users to take a pill).

Evidence acquisition

Multiple databases, including PubMed, were searched during 2016-2017 for articles published from March 1, 2011, to November 30, 2016, describing studies of reminder systems.

Evidence synthesis

The search strategy identified 24,953 articles, of which two studies met the inclusion criteria. In total with the initial review, four studies (including two RCTs) examined reminder systems among oral contraception users, with two of three that examined correct use finding a statistically significant positive impact, and one RCT

SUBMITTER: Zapata LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6637413 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature