Using Mobile Technology to Improve Teenage Pregnancy Neuro-Cognitive Outcomes

We plan to offer pregnant teenagers social support, nutritional information and advise on contraception using mobile technology. We believe this is both affordable and sustainable in Low and middle income settings. A positive experience of such an intervention can then be rolled out to cover other settings since teenage pregnancy is a worldwide phenomenon. The outcomes of interest will be both physical parameters like the anthropometric measurements as well as cognitive development.The intervention will be tested in Homa Bay County, Western Kenya. Homa Bay is one of the counties with the highest rates of unintended teenage pregnancies in Kenya at 33.3% of 15-19 year olds being pregnant/mothers, according to the Kenya Population Situational analysis report 2016. Enrollment will be through ANC visits and also through appeals to academic institutions (primary and secondary schools).