Clinical trialNCT06289101RecruitingInterventional

text4FATHER R21: Social Media - Efficacy Trial

SponsorJohns Hopkins UniversityEnrollment180FathersMobile HealthNuclear Family

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Summary

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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.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a FindMyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

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

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Recruiting

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 10 Sept 2024
Primary completion: 30 Jun 2027
Completion: 30 Jun 2027
Last update posted: 15 Jul 2026
Registered enrollment: 180
Registry id: NCT06289101

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 4 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.