Evaluation of a Mobile Health Intervention to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Kenyan Adolescents Living in Urban Informal Settlements
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Conditions studied: mHealth Intervention
In brief
This two-year study evaluates a mobile phone-based comprehensive sexuality education program designed to support adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Kenya, where rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections remain high. The program, called AskDoki, delivers age-appropriate health information through the WhatsApp platform and is supported by trained youth peer leaders known as Digital Champions, who help adolescents access and use the program. Communities participating in the study are assigned either to receive the AskDoki program with Digital Champion support (intervention communities) or to not receive the program (comparison communities). Adolescents in both intervention and comparison communities complete surveys before the program begins and again six months after implementation of the AskDoki program. The surveys assess health knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and intended behaviors related to sexual and reproductive health. The study compares changes in survey responses over time between intervention and comparison communities to assess the program's effectiveness. It also evaluates how feasible it is to use Digital Champions to support adolescents' engagement with the mobile program and examines the cost-effectiveness of this approach.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07587281
- Run by
- Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
- People needed
- 610
- Starts
- 2026-05-22
- Expected to finish
- 2027-04-30
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-05-14
Who can join
Age: 15 and older, up to 19. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- age 15-19
- residing in one of the informal settlements participating in the study
- not planning to relocate for 18 months
- not currently married or living as married
- comprehension of informed consent
- willing to provide assent/consent
You may not qualify if…
- Age 14 and younger
- Age 20 and older
- Married/living as married
- Planning to relocate within 18 months
- Not residing in one of the informal settlements participating in the study
- Unable to comprehend informed consent
- Unwilling to provide assent/consent.
Where it is running
- Amref Health Africa in Kenya — Nairobi, Kenya
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