| Trial name or title |
The Text4baby case study. |
| Methods |
Pilot RCT. |
| Participants |
Pregnant women attending for first prenatal care appointment. Planned recruitment 249 women. |
| Interventions |
Usual care plus mobile phone text messages during pregnancy and the postnatal period (general health promotion, healthcare utilisation, nutrition, smoking, 130 prenatal messages and similar number for the postnatal period) compared with usual care alone. |
| Outcomes |
Gestational age at delivery, antenatal hospital admissions, attendance at antenatal care, body mass index, weight gain in pregnancy, infant birthweight. |
| Starting date |
Not clear, planned completion of recruitment "late 2012". |
| Contact information |
wdevans@gwu.edu |
| Notes |
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