NCT04198272

Impact Evaluation of CyberRwanda: A Digital Health Intervention for Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 6,078 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Berkeley · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This protocol describes an evaluation of the CyberRwanda program, a digital health tool designed with and for adolescents in Rwanda, with a focus on successful futures, broadly, and family planning and reproductive health, more specifically. CyberRwanda is a tablet-based system that provides information on family planning and reproductive health through a set of vignettes. The program also allows users to order and purchase contraceptives, with pick up at nearby participating pharmacies. The program will be implemented in schools in eight districts in Rwanda. The investigators will conduct a 3-arm, cluster, randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of CyberRwanda on three primary outcomes: uptake of a contraceptive method, initiation of childbearing, and HIV testing. The investigators will compare two implementation models (facilitated and self-service) to a control arm at the school (cluster) level. The study will enroll 60 schools (20 per arm) and 100 students per school, and follow students for 24 months.

Conditions

• Pregnancy in Adolescence
• Adolescent Health
• Health Services Accessibility

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	CyberRwanda	The CyberRwanda intervention consists of three primary components: 1. STORIES: The CyberRwanda curriculum empowers youth to learn about family planning and reproductive health and employment skills and to set goals for their futures through age-appropriate, interactive, digital and printed stories and activities. 2. LEARN: Q\&As and videos related to family planning and reproductive health. 3. SHOP: Youth can directly purchase health products, including menstrual hygiene and contraceptive products (emergency contraception, condoms, and oral contraceptive pills) online. The online health facility finder tool links youth to health facilities for longer-acting methods. All participating pharmacies will be trained to give unbiased, nonjudgmental information and services.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-20
• Primary completion: 2023-08-31
• Completion: 2023-08-31
• First posted: 2019-12-13
• Last updated: 2024-12-05

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Rwanda