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Using Short Message Service Alerts to Increase Antenatal Care and Malaria Prevention: Findings from Implementation Research Pilot in Guinea
Rebecca Mann Flueckiger
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Diallo M. Thierno
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National Malaria Control Program, Ministry of Health, Conakry, Guinea;
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President’s Malaria Initiative, US Agency for International Development, Conakry, Guinea;
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Elizabeth Regan Fitch
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Intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine (SP) is recommended to prevent malaria in pregnancy. Treatment coverage, particularly for three or more doses, is dependent on pregnant women attending antenatal care (ANC) services as scheduled. The StopPalu project pilot tested short message services (SMSs) to remind women of upcoming ANC visits in the Conakry and Kindia regions of Guinea. Health facilities were selected as pilot and comparison facilities. All women who attended an initial ANC visit at a selected facility during the pilot period and had access to a mobile telephone were enrolled. The pilot group was sent an SMS before each appointment. Percentage of attendance and SP distribution were calculated. A log-binomial regression model determined odds ratios. Pregnant women receiving SMS were 48 times more likely to attend all visits and were 12 times more likely to receive all SP doses during pregnancy.
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Financial support: Funding for this study was through support provided to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Guinea StopPalu (Cooperative Agreement number AID-675-A-13-00005) project by the President’s Malaria Initiative via the USAID.
Authors’ addresses: Rebecca Mann Flueckiger, International Development Group, RTI International, Atlanta, GA, E-mail: rflueckiger@rti.org. Diallo M. Thierno, Jean-Luc Taton, and Aissata Fofana, StopPalu+, RTI International, Conakry, Guinea, E-mails: tbdiallo@stoppalu.rti.org, jtaton@rti.org, and afofana@rti.org. Rajeev Colaço and Richard Reithinger, International Development Group, RTI International, Washington, DC, E-mail: rcolaco@rti.org and rreithinger@yahoo.co.uk. Timothée Guilavogui, National Malaria Control Program, Ministry of Health, Conakry, Guinea, E-mail: gui_timothee@yahoo.fr. Lamine Bangoura, President’s Malaria Initiative, US Agency for International Development, Conakry, Guinea, E-mail: lbangoura@usaid.gov. Elizabeth Regan Fitch, International Development Group, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, E-mail: eregan@rti.org.
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WHO, 2016. WHO Recommendations on Antenatal Care for a Positive Pregnancy Experience. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
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WHO Global Malaria Programme, 2017. World Malaria Report. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
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Institut National de la Statistique, 2017. Enquête Par Grappes à Indicateurs Multiples (MICS, 2016), Rapport Final. Conakry, Guinea: Institut National de la Statistique.
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Steketee RW, Nahlen BL, Parise ME, Menendez C, 2001. The burden of malaria in pregnancy in malaria-endemic areas. Am J Trop Med Hyg 64 (Suppl 1–2): 28–35.
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Global Malaria Programme, 2012. Updated WHO Policy Recommendation: Intermittent Preventive Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy Using Sulfadoxine Pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP). Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.
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White NJ, 2005. Intermittent presumptive treatment for malaria. PLoS Med 2: e3.
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8.
Kashgary A, Alsolaimani R, Mosli M, Faraj S, 2017. The role of mobile devices in doctor-patient communication: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Telemed Telecare 23: 693–700.
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9.
Gurol-Urganci I, de Jongh T, Vodopivec-Jamsek V, Atun R, Car J, 2013. Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 12: CD007458.
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10.
Boksmati N, Butler-Henderson K, Anderson K, Sahama T, 2016. The effectiveness of SMS reminders on appointment attendance: a meta-analysis. J Med Syst 40: 90.
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13.
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16.
Youssef A, 2014. Use of short message service reminders to improve attendance at an internal medicine outpatient clinic in Saudi Arabia: a randomized controlled trial. East Mediterr Health J 20: 317–323.
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