text4FATHER R21: Social Media - Efficacy Trial

Description

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.

Conditions

Fathers, Mobile Health, Nuclear Family

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

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.

Adapting text4FATHER to Directly Link to First-time Expectant Fathers Using Social Media to Improve Infant and Family Health

text4FATHER R21: Social Media - Efficacy Trial

Condition
Fathers
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * 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.
  • * 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

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Johns Hopkins University,

Arik Marcell, MD, MPH, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Johns Hopkins Dept of Pediatrics / Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine

Study Record Dates

2025-10