Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02509702
Use of SMSs to Improve Attendance to Cervical Cancer Follow-up Screening
Text Messages to Increase Attendance to Follow-up Cervical Cancer Screening Appointments Among HPV Positive Tanzanian Women (Connected2Care)
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 705 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Marianne Andersen · Academic / Other
- Sex
- Female
- Age
- 25 Years – 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
This study evaluates the effect of the SMS intervention 'Connected2Care' on the attendance rate to cervical cancer screening follow-up appointments.
Detailed description
Connected2Care is a non-blinded, multicentre, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial. Tanzanian Women testing positive to HR HPV at inclusion are randomly assigned in an allocation ratio of 1:1 to the SMS intervention or the control group (standard care). In a period of 10 months, the intervention group will receive 15 one-directional health educative text messages and SMS-reminders for their appointment. The total sample size will be 700 with 350 women in each study arm. Primary outcome is attendance rate for follow-up. Secondary objectives are cost-effectiveness measured through incremental ratios and knowledge of cervical cancer by a 16-item true/false scale questionnaire at baseline and follow-up.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Connected to Care | 10 health educative SMSs' sent once a month 5 SMS-reminders for follow-up appointment sent on days -14, -7, -1 pre- follow-up appointment, and +1, +7 post follow-up appointment |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-08-17
- Primary completion
- 2019-10-06
- Completion
- 2019-10-06
- First posted
- 2015-07-28
- Last updated
- 2021-12-29
Locations
3 sites across 1 country: Tanzania
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02509702. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.