NCT05374837

Mobile Messaging for Improved Nutrition

The Impact and Implementation of a Mobile Messaging Intervention to Improve Infant and Young Child Nutrition in Senegal

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 488 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 23 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project will examine the impact of an infant and young child feeding (IYCF) voice messaging intervention delivered to mothers and fathers in Senegal on the consumption of a minimum acceptable diet and anemia prevalence in their children.

Detailed description

This is a cluster-randomized control trial (cRCT) conducted with 488 mother, father, and child triads in 104 villages in three regions in Senegal: Thies, Diourbel and Fatick. Mothers and fathers in the experimental group will receive 16 voice and text messages over the course of 16 weeks. One voice and 1 text message with the same content will be sent per week over the 16 week period. We will include eight scripted messages which have previously been piloted. We will also include eight unscripted messages from positive deviants from communities similar to our study population that were included in our pilot study. A text message with the same content as the voice message will be sent to each triad mother and father to increase the reach of the intervention. We will conduct baseline and endline assessments of infant and young child feeding practices in both the experimental and control groups. Primary outcomes will include the prevalence of anemia and minimum acceptable diet in children. Minimum acceptable diet is an indicator of dietary diversity and a proxy for nutrient adequacy. Secondary outcomes include the frequency of consuming key foods targeted in the intervention over the previous 7 days and infant and young child feeding indicators of complementary feeding of the child. In addition, infant and young child feeding knowledge, beliefs, and norms (of mothers and fathers in triads) and intentions (of mothers in triads) will be included as secondary outcomes.

Conditions

• Diet, Healthy
• Anemia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Infant and young child feeding voice messaging intervention	A mobile voice and text messaging intervention aimed at improving IYCF practices will be delivered to mothers and fathers with young children (6-23 months). A total of 16 voice and text message, with the same content, will be sent over a 16-week period (1 voice + 1 text messages (with same content) per week x 16 weeks). Two types of messages will be included: 1) eight scripted and 2) eight unscripted messages from positive deviants. The content of the messages include: breastfeeding until two years of age, consuming a variety of foods within a given meal, the consistency of porridge (thick rather than thin), limiting sweets and fried foods, the importance of animal source foods, consuming vitamin A rich fruits and vegetables, consuming leafy greens, handwashing and feeding infants and young children fruits and vegetables produced by the household.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-10
• Primary completion: 2022-12-15
• Completion: 2022-12-15
• First posted: 2022-05-16
• Last updated: 2024-12-30
• Results posted: 2024-12-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Senegal