Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: To Evaluate the Role of Mobile Phone SMS Messages and Automated Calls in Improving Vaccine Coverage Among Children in Pakistan
Brief Summary: Routine childhood immunization (RCI) in Pakistan is well below the recommended coverage of 90% with rates as low as 16% in certain regions (Pakistan DHS 2012-3). This has led to continued polio transmission, large measles outbreaks and thousands of deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases (Kazi.Bull WHO 2016). Mobile phone communication is widespread in developing countries and has proven a potential method of directly connecting pregnant women and mothers to health services (Kharbanda. Expert Review of Vaccine 2014). The investigators propose conducting a mixed methods proof of concept cluster randomized trial (CRT) to assess the effectiveness of different types of SMS messaging and automated calls to improve RCI and understand the perceptions and barriers that may affect SMS and automated call-based interventions at participants levels. the investigators will conduct the study at urban and rural sites in Pakistan. The investigators will examine an important public health question - do low cost, automated SMS, and automated messages improve RCI coverage in resource-constrained settings? Further, investigators will compare the effectiveness of reminder, educational and interactive text messages for improving RCI and will generate socio-cultural data regarding the impact of participants health beliefs that will be important for setting up the appropriate interventions in other LMICs.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* The inclusion criteria includes being a child from the HDSS site, being less than 14 days of age with parent/guardian or at least one person in the household having a working mobile phone connection and parent/guardian providing consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* The exclusion criteria includes a child from outside HDSS area or family plans to stay in the catchment area for less than 20 weeks
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Mothers/caregivers of healthy infants (age 0 - 12 months) who:

  1. Have a mobile phone access
  2. Received antenatal care and/or delivered their babies in a hospital
  3. Plans to receive immunizations at the selected PHCs
* Purposively-selected community sample of pregnant women in their third trimester, parents/caregivers of infants, providers, community gatekeepers and policy makers

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Parents of infants requiring hospital admission due to significant illness, congenital deformity/malformation and prematurity
2. Foreigners
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* parent or caregiver of a well child born at Wesley Medical Center;
* planning to utilize the Carriage Park Pediatric Clinic for his/her child's medical home; (
* adult (\> 18 years of age);
* present use of a mobile phone for sending and receiving text messages;
* English or Spanish speaking;
* able to provide informed consent.

Exclusion criteria include:

* personal or religious beliefs against immunizations;
* inability to complete enrollment information.
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Known or recently diagnosed HIV-positive in ANC or; Tested HIV-negative at ANC
* Plans to deliver in facility catchment area
* 18 years or older
* Able and willing to provide consent

Exclusion Criteria:

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Answer: A