A tailored mHealth intervention for improving antenatal care seeking and health behavioral determinants during pregnancy among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa: development and protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial

This paper describes the Teen MomConnect intervention to improve antenatal appointment attendance and pregnancy health behaviors among adolescent girls and young women. The results on the intervention's preliminary efficacy and user acceptability will inform policy makers and health program officers on how tailored, age-appropriate, and motivational health behavior messages can be delivered via mobile phone to pregnant adolescent girls and young women.