Clinical trial NCT01823861: Mobile Technology for Improved Family Planning
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Contraception
Post-abortion Family Planning
mHealth
Lead sponsor: Marie Stopes International
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
First posted: 2013-04-04
Enrollment: 500
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: An individual randomised controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness of a voice-based mobile phone health (mHealth) intervention to support post-abortion family planning (PAFP) at four Marie Stopes International clinics in Cambodia.

The study seeks to address the research question: does a PAFP mHealth intervention increase use of contraception in Cambodia? STUDY RESULTS: http://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/en/


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Client attending for abortion
* Client does not want to have a child at the current time
* Client aged 18 or over
* Client owns a mobile phone
* Client willing to receive simple voice messages relating to contraception from Marie Stopes in Khmer language

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not meeting inclusion criteria
* Declined to participate

Primary outcomes:
measure: Use of a Effective Contraceptive Method at Four-months Post-abortion
timeFrame: 4 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Pregnancy
timeFrame: 4 months
measure: Repeat Abortion
timeFrame: 4 months
measure: Contraceptive Discontinuation
timeFrame: 4 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Phnom Penh
country: Cambodia
facility: Marie Stopes International
Study officials:
References:
citation: Smith C, Ngo TD, Gold J, Edwards P, Vannak U, Sokhey L, Machiyama K, Slaymaker E, Warnock R, McCarthy O, Free C. Effect of a mobile phone-based intervention on post-abortion contraception: a randomized controlled trial in Cambodia. Bull World Health Organ. 2015 Dec 1;93(12):842-50A. doi: 10.2471/BLT.15.160267. Epub 2015 Oct 15.
citation: Hill J, McGinn J, Cairns J, Free C, Smith C. A Mobile Phone-Based Support Intervention to Increase Use of Postabortion Family Planning in Cambodia: Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2020 Feb 25;8(2):e16276. doi: 10.2196/16276.
citation: Smith C, Edwards P, Free C. Assessing the validity and reliability of self-report data on contraception use in the MObile Technology for Improved Family Planning (MOTIF) randomised controlled trial. Reprod Health. 2018 Mar 15;15(1):50. doi: 10.1186/s12978-018-0494-7.
citation: Smith C, Jarvis C, Free C. Assessing loss to follow-up in the MObile Technology for Improved Family Planning (MOTIF) randomised controlled trial. Trials. 2017 Dec 1;18(1):577. doi: 10.1186/s13063-017-2316-6.
citation: Smith C, Ngo TD, Edwards P, Free C. MObile Technology for Improved Family Planning: update to randomised controlled trial protocol. Trials. 2014 Nov 12;15:440. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-440.
citation: Smith C, Vannak U, Sokhey L, Ngo TD, Gold J, Khut K, Edwards P, Rathavy T, Free C. MObile Technology for Improved Family Planning Services (MOTIF): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials. 2013 Dec 12;14:427. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-427.