Clinical Trial: Measuring the Impact of a Mobile Health System to Support Healthy Pregnancies and Improve Newborn Survival

Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional




Official Title: mCARE II: Enhancing, Integrating and Scaling mCARE and Measuring the Impact of a Mobile Health System to Support Healthy Pregnancies and Improve Newborn Survival

Brief Summary: The purpose of this community-based randomized controlled trial is to test whether the mCARE-II intervention package, delivered by the existing Government of Bangladesh community health workforce, will improve neonatal and perinatal survival in a rural setting in northwestern Bangladesh. mCARE-II is a digital health intervention, which incorporates automated workload scheduling, client prioritization and risk stratification, overdue service reminders and demand generation through client side reminder messaging. The intervention package focuses on the pregnancy and early postpartum period.