Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02263118
A Mobile-health Pilot Experiment Targeting Mothers With Newborns in Rural Areas of San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala
A Mobile-health Pilot Experiment Targeting Mothers With Newborns in Rural Areas of San Juan Sacatepequez, Guatemala, in the Context of Exclusive Breastfeeding Practices
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 100 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Universidad Francisco Marroquín · Academic / Other
- Sex
- Female
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study was to determine whether exposure to m-health platforms promoting recommended breastfeeding practices was effective in transmitting the exclusive breastfeeding message to participant mothers, and in improving weight evolution of infants.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Uni-directional SMS | Exposure to breastfeeding promoting SMSs |
| DEVICE | Feature phone | Participants were given a feature phone. |
| OTHER | Virtual communities | Exposure to virtual community communication via SMS |
| OTHER | Hybrid setup | Exposure to virtual community and access to communications with health professional via SMS |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-11-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-05-01
- Completion
- 2014-05-01
- First posted
- 2014-10-13
- Last updated
- 2015-07-22
- Results posted
- 2015-06-30
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02263118. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.