Social and Behavior Change Communication Interventions Delivered Face-to-Face and by a Mobile Phone to Strengthen Vaccination Uptake and Improve Child Health in Rural India: Randomized Pilot Study

Mira Johri   ^{1, 2} , PhD, MPH ;   Dinesh Chandra   ³ , MA ;   Karna Georges Kone   ^{1, 4} , PhD ;   Marie-Pierre Sylvestre   ^{1, 5} , PhD ;   Alok K Mathur   ⁶ , PhD, MBA ;   Sam Harper   ^{7, 8} , PhD ;   Arijit Nandi   ^{7, 9} , PhD

¹ Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, QC, Canada

² Département de gestion, d’évaluation, et de politique de santé, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

³ Independent consultant, New Delhi, India

⁴ Principal Technical Advisor for Health Financing at Management Sciences for Health (MSH)/USAID, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

⁵ Département de médecine sociale et préventive, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

⁶ Indian Institute of Health Management Research University, Jaipur, India

⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁸ Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands

⁹ The Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada