Two-way Texting for VMMC Follow-up in Republic of South Africa

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

1,093

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

June 7, 2021

Primary Completion Date

February 3, 2022

Study Completion Date

March 24, 2022

Conditions
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Text-based VMMC follow-up

2wT clients will receive automated daily texts from days 1-13. If a 2wT VMMC client responds that he suspects an AE, a VMMC nurse will exchange modifiable, scripted texts with clients to determine symptoms, frequency, and severity. Then, if deemed necessary, the client will be asked to return to clinic the following day or earlier. If 2wT patients do not respond to texts or return for any visit by day 14, they will be traced by SMS, phone or home visit. All study participants will be asked to come to the clinic for study-specific, Day 14 follow-up to review healing and verify adverse event reporting. At Day 21, we will implement a brief text-based survey with 2wT clients to ascertain complete healing, providing stronger inferences at study completion.

Trial Locations (9)

1030

Philadelphia Hospital, Dennilton

1129

Dilokong Hospital, Driekop

1632

Winnie Mandela Male Health Clinic, Tembisa

Unknown

Mogwase, Mogwase

Bafokeng, Phokeng

Tsakane Clinic, Brakpan

Katlehong North Clinic, Katlehong

0739

Nchabeleng Community Health Centre, Apel

0450

Matlala Hospital, Marble Hall

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Aurum Institute

OTHER

collaborator

National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

NIH

lead

University of Washington

OTHER