Mobile phone Short Message Service (SMS) as a malaria control tool: evidence from rural Ghana

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Aliyu Mohammed, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, School of Public Health

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Project Citation: 

Mohammed, Aliyu. Mobile phone Short Message Service (SMS) as a malaria control tool: evidence from rural Ghana . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-03-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E108722V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary
Data from this study comes from a theory-driven mHealth intervention which sought to assess the effect of voice SMS on the prevalence of malaria among children under-five living in rural districts of Ghana, Sub-sahara Africa. A quasi-experimental study was conducted from Februray 2016 to March 2017 using a random sample of 332 caregivers with children under-five from two rural health districts, assigned to either an intervention or a control group. A two-stage cluster smpling was used to select the sample. Caregivers in the intervention group received voice short message service (SMS) on malaria prevention based on a behavior change theory to improve their health behaviors and practice, once a week for twelve months, while caregivers in the control group received none. 



Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms behavior ; health; voice communications; information technology
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Ghana, Sub-Saharan Africa
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2/9/2016 – 3/26/2017
Universe:  View help for Universe Caregivers and children under-five from rural districts of Ghana
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) geographic information system (GIS) data; survey data

Methodology

Response Rate:  View help for Response Rate For this Survey data, which involved cross-sectional surveys at bseline and endline, all participants (332) participated at baseline. Six (6) participants dropped out at 12 months follow-up, giving a response rate of 98.2%.
Sampling:  View help for Sampling A two-stage random cluster sampling method was employed; cluster selection and participants from households


Data Source:  View help for Data Source Individual-sponsored surevy
Collection Mode(s):  View help for Collection Mode(s) face-to-face interview; on-site questionnaire; other
Scales:  View help for Scales Includes a Likert-type scale

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