text4FATHER R21: Social Media - Efficacy Trial

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Conditions studied: Fathers, Mobile Health, Nuclear Family

In brief

This project will be the first to examine the efficacy of a text messaging intervention designed to recruit first-time fathers-to-be using social media across the U.S. to become involved during pregnancy through two months of postnatal age to support infant, mother, and father well-being.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06289101

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

180

Starts

2024-09-10

Expected to finish

2027-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-07-15

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Aged ≥18 years
• Live in the U.S.
• Speak English
• Mother gestational age at enrollment less than 25 weeks
• First-time father-to-be
• Willing/able to receive texts.

You may not qualify if…

• Individuals who are minors
• Do not speak English
• Unable to provide informed consent
• Not a first-time father
• Not willing/unable to receive texts
• In the past 12 months, any safety concern reported between father-to-be and the mother-to-be, including report of any physical, emotional, sexual harm, threatening behaviors, police involvement, restraining or protective order

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins University — Baltimore, Maryland, United States (enrolling)

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