A Tailored mHealth Intervention for Improving Antenatal Care Seeking and Health Behavioral Determinants During Pregnancy Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa: Development and Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
A Tailored mHealth Intervention for Improving Antenatal Care Seeking and Health Behavioral Determinants During Pregnancy Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa: Development and Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Ronel Sewpaul
1, 2
, MSc ;
Ken Resnicow
3
, PhD ;
Rik Crutzen
1
, PhD ;
Natisha Dukhi
2
, PhD ;
Afzal Ellahebokus
4
, BSc ;
Priscilla Reddy
5
, PhD
1
Department of Health Promotion, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
2
Public Health, Societies and Belonging, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa
3
School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
4
ARCH Actuarial Consulting, Cape Town, South Africa
5
College of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Corresponding Author:
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Ronel Sewpaul, MSc
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Public Health, Societies and Belonging
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Human Sciences Research Council
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134 Pretorius Street
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Pretoria, 0002
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South Africa
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Phone:
27 214667912
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Email: rsewpaul@hsrc.ac.za