Published on in Vol 12 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/43654, first published .
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

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:

  • Ronel Sewpaul, MSc
  • Public Health, Societies and Belonging
  • Human Sciences Research Council
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  • Pretoria, 0002
  • South Africa
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  • Email: rsewpaul@hsrc.ac.za