Published on in Vol 13 (2024)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/52395, first published .
Effectiveness of a Mobile Phone Messaging–Based Message Framing Intervention for Improving Maternal Health Service Uptake and Newborn Care Practice in Rural Jimma Zone, Ethiopia: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Effectiveness of a Mobile Phone Messaging–Based Message Framing Intervention for Improving Maternal Health Service Uptake and Newborn Care Practice in Rural Jimma Zone, Ethiopia: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Effectiveness of a Mobile Phone Messaging–Based Message Framing Intervention for Improving Maternal Health Service Uptake and Newborn Care Practice in Rural Jimma Zone, Ethiopia: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Gebeyehu Bulcha   1 * , BSc, MPH ;   Hordofa Gutema Abdissa   1 * , BSc, MPH ;   Josef Noll   2 , BSc, MBA, PhD ;   Demisew Amenu Sori   3 , MD ;   Zewdie Birhanu Koricha   1 , BSc, MPH, PhD

1 Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Faculty of Public Health, Institutes of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

2 Department of Technology Systems, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, Institutes of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

*these authors contributed equally

Corresponding Author:

  • Gebeyehu Bulcha, BSc, MPH
  • Department of Health, Behavior, and Society
  • Faculty of Public Health, Institutes of Health
  • Jimma University
  • Aba Jifar Palas
  • 1000
  • Jimma, 16202
  • Ethiopia
  • Phone: 251 0911801923
  • Email: gebeyehubulcha@gmail.com