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A randomized controlled trial of an intervention delivered by mobile phone text message to increase the acceptability of effective contraception among young women in Palestine.
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A Randomised Controlled Trial of an Intervention Delivered by Text Message to Increase the Acceptability of Effective Contraception Among Young Women in Palestine
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Effectiveness of mHealth Interventions for Improving Contraceptive Use in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Global health, science and practice · 2020Pooled it
- Targeted client communication via mobile devices for improving sexual and reproductive health.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- The effects of text reminders on the use of family planning services: evidence from a randomised controlled trial in urban Mozambique.BMJ global health · 2022Trial
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- An Intervention Delivered by Mobile Phone Instant Messaging to Increase Acceptability and Use of Effective Contraception Among Young Women in Bolivia: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Trial
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- Intention to use mobile phone-based TB screening among HIV patients in Debre Tabor Town public health facilities, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Addressing social norms for adolescent timing and spacing of pregnancy in low and middle-income countries: Developing a global research agenda.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- Perceived barriers and opportunities of providing quality family planning services among Palestinian midwives, physicians and nurses in the West Bank: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Acceptability of telemedicine for follow up after contraceptive implant initiation at an obstetrics and gynecologic training center.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Personal data governance and privacy in digital reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health initiatives in Palestine and Jordan: a mapping exercise.Frontiers in digital health · 2023Article
- Digital health in fragile states in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: A scoping review of the literature.PloS one · 2023Article
- Getting Intentional about Intention to Use: A Scoping Review of Person-Centered Measures of Demand.Studies in family planning · 2022Article
- The impact of community-based integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health services for youth on population-level HIV viral load and sexually transmitted infections in Zimbabwe: protocol for the CHIEDZA cluster-randomised trial.Wellcome open research · 2022Article
- Use of implementation science to advance family planning programs in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Frontiers in global women's health · 2022Review
- Formative Study of Mobile Phone Use for Family Planning Among Young People in Sierra Leone: Global Systematic Survey.JMIR formative research · 2021Article
- Context-acceptability theories: example of family planning interventions in five African countries.Implementation science : IS · 2021Article
- A Mobile Phone-Based Sexual and Reproductive Health Intervention for Female Sex Workers in Kenya: Development and Qualitative Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundResearch has shown that mobile phone contraceptive behavioral interventions can increase knowledge and use of contraception, but other studies have failed to demonstrate a beneficial effect. The objective of this trial was to estimate the effect of a contraceptive behavioral intervention delivered by mobile phone text message on young Palestinian women's attitudes towards effective contraception.
methodsWe conducted a randomized controlled trial among women aged 18-24 years living in the West Bank, who were not using an effective method of contraception. The intervention group received zero to three messages per day (113 messages for female-not married and 120 messages for female-married) for 120 days. The control group received 16 messages over 120 days about trial participation. The primary outcome was acceptability of at least one method of effective contraception at 4 months. Secondary outcomes were use of effective contraception at 4 months and any use during the study, acceptability of individual methods, service uptake, unintended pregnancy and abortion. Process outcomes included knowledge, perceived norms, personal agency and intention. All outcomes were self-reported. We analyzed the outcomes using logistic and linear regression.
resultsA total of 578 participants were enrolled and 464 (80%) completed follow up at 4 months. Intervention group participants were more likely to find at least one method of effective contraception acceptable (31% in the intervention group versus 17% in the control group, adjusted OR 2.34, 95% CI 1.48-3.68, p < 0.001). They had a higher mean knowledge score, were more likely to find the intrauterine device, injection, implant and patch acceptable, to agree that their friends would use an effective method and to intend to use an effective method, compared to participants in the control group. While in the direction of intervention benefit, there were no differences between the groups in the use of effective contraception at 4 months and any use during the study, pill acceptability, service uptake, unintended pregnancy and induced abortion.
conclusionsThe intervention can improve attitudes, knowledge-perceived norms and intention to use effective contraception among young women in Palestine. Research is needed to evaluate the efficacy of the intervention for contraceptive behavioral outcomes in Palestine.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02905461 . Registered on 14 September 2016. World Health Organization Trial Registration Data Set: http://apps.who.int/trialsearch/Trial2.aspx?TrialID=NCT02905461.
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