Published on in Vol 12 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/47018, first published .
Testing the Impact of Phone Texting Reminders for Children's Immunization Appointments in Rural Cameroon: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Controlled Trial

Testing the Impact of Phone Texting Reminders for Children's Immunization Appointments in Rural Cameroon: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Controlled Trial

Testing the Impact of Phone Texting Reminders for Children's Immunization Appointments in Rural Cameroon: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Controlled Trial

Yayah Emerencia Ngah   1 , MPH ;   Ghazal Raoufi   2 , MPH ;   Maral Amirkhani   2 , MPH ;   Ashkan Esmaeili   2 , MPH ;   Rasa Nikooifard   2 , MPH ;   Shidrokh Ghaemi Mood   2 , MPH ;   Ava Rahmanian   2 , MPH ;   Minyahil Tadesse Boltena   3 , MPH ;   Eresso Aga   4 , MSc, MPH, PhD ;   Ujjwal Neogi   5 , MSc, PhD ;   George Ikomey Mondinde   6 , MSc, PhD ;   Ziad El-Khatib   7 , MSc, EMBA, PhD

1 Azire Integrated Health Center, Bamenda Health District, Ministry of Health, Bamenda, Cameroon

2 Public Health Graduate Studies, Department of Biology, The Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education, Tehran, Iran

3 Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

4 UNICEF Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan

5 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

6 Center for the Studies and Control of Communicable Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences, University of Yaoundé 1, Yaounde, Cameroon

7 Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Corresponding Author:

  • Ziad El-Khatib, MSc, EMBA, PhD
  • Department of Global Public Health
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Norrbackagatan 4
  • Stockholm, 171 76
  • Sweden
  • Phone: 43 6643461861
  • Email: ziad.khatib@gmail.com