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Prenatal Care Program in Dingyuan County

NCT01054235 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 5000

Last updated 2010-01-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The general objective of this study is to evaluate prenatal care in the specific context of rural China. It also aims to define the optimal content of prenatal care for the context of rural China, to evaluate the effect of such prenatal care on infant and maternal outcomes, using a community based, well designed controlled trial in rural counties. Finally, it aims to describe the process of conducting a controlled study using community resources.

Conditions

  • Prenatal Care

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

training

The intervention consisted of 1) training township midwives, 2) informing women and men in the community of the importance of prenatal care, 3) providing intervention township hospitals with basic medical instruments used in prenatal care (i.e. blood pressure monitors, weighing scales for mothers and newborns, stethoscopes).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Shanghai Medical University, School of Public Health, China

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Elina Hemminki · Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2000-08-31
Primary Completion
2003-03-31
Completion
2003-03-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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