Effect of a Short-Message-Service (SMS) and Inter-Personal Communication (IPC) Strategy on Maternal and Child Nutrition Outcomes: A Factorial Design Cluster Randomized Trial

Autor:	Stella Nordhagen, Jessica D. Rothstein, Yunhee Kang, Joyceline Kaganda, Rolf Klemm, Erin Smith
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Short Message Service biology business.industry Factorial experiment Interpersonal communication Anthropometry biology.organism_classification Odds Tanzania Medicine Cluster randomised controlled trial business mHealth Demography
Zdroj:	SSRN Electronic Journal.
ISSN:	1556-5068
Popis:	Background: Sub-optimal infant and child feeding and growth faltering persist in Tanzania. We evaluated the effects of delivering nutrition/health messages through short-message-service (SMS) and interpersonal communication (IPC) strategies, separately and in combination, on maternal and child dietary diversity and nutritional status. Methods: This study was a 2×2 factorial, 40-cluster-randomized trial (10 clusters per group) with three intervention groups (SMS, IPC, and SMS+IPC) and a usual care (or ‘control’) among households containing a pregnant woman and/or a child
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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