Personalized Text Messages and Automated Calls for Improving Vaccine Coverage Among Children in Pakistan: Protocol for a Community-Based Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A major reason for poor childhood vaccine coverage in developing countries is the lack of awareness among parents and caregivers regarding the need for immunization and the importance of completing the entire series of vaccines. Short message service (SMS)-based interventions have been quite effective in different programs such as smoking cessation, treatment adherence, health care scheduled appointment attendance, antenatal care attendance, and compliance to immunization. However, there are limited data from low- and middle-income countries on the role of SMS and automated call-based messages and interventions to improve routine immunization (RI) coverage.

Objective

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate whether automated mobile phone-based personaliz

SUBMITTER: Kazi AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658276 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature