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mCARE II: Enhancing, Integrating and Scaling mCARE and Measuring the Impact of a Mobile Health System to Support Healthy Pregnancies and Improve Newborn Survival
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating mCARE-II for High Perinatal Mortality and 3 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 113,539 participants across 1 site.
Detailed 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.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
mCARE-II is a package of interventions that provides guided client enumeration and follow-up support to community health workers, automated workflow scheduling, risk assessment, client prioritization and stratification and client-based demand generation messaging. These features are incorporated into a platform called OpenSRP, which integrates text message reminders, scheduling, and form submissions on the server side, and displays schedules and client lists on a tablet-based application for community health workers.