NCT01722734

Preserving ACTs - Text Reminders to Increase Adherence to ACT Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,140 (actual)
• Sponsor: Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A randomized controlled trial was conducted to assess the effectiveness of text reminders sent to ACT users through an automated text messaging system short-message-system. Study hypothesis: text message reminders increase adherence

Detailed description

A randomized controlled trial was conducted to assess the effectiveness of text reminders sent to ACT users through an automated text messaging system short-message-system. Patients were enrolled at clinics and pharmacies upon receipt of ACTs and enrolled in the automated system for 3 days.

Conditions

• Malaria

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Text message reminders	Patients in the two treatment arms receive six short text message reminders within 60 hours of treatment initiation at 12 hour intervals to remind them to take their malaria medication as prescribed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-06-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2013-01-01
• First posted: 2012-11-07
• Last updated: 2014-03-21
• Results posted: 2014-03-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ghana