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Improving Maternal and Child Health in India: Evaluating Demand and Supply Side Strategies (IMATCHINE)

NCT01480544 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 14990

Last updated 2015-12-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study evaluates the impact of a new conditional cash transfer (CCT) program (Thayi Bhagya Yojana) to promote child birth in obstetric facilities in the state of Karnataka, India in order to determine its policy value and to guide efforts to improve maternal and infant health outcomes nationally. In addition, the study includes a large randomized evaluation of performance-based incentive payments to providers to improve quality of medical care provided during delivery and actual health improvement in the providers' patient populations and their catchment areas.

Conditions

  • Obstetric Labor Complications
  • Post-partum Hemorrhage
  • Sepsis
  • Pre-eclampsia
  • Neonatal Mortality

Interventions

OTHER

Experimental: Treatment 1

Physicians will receive financial incentives for improving the quality of obstetric and neonatal care provided to mothers and newborns as reported by mothers during household interviews.

OTHER

Experimental: Treatment 2

Physicians will receive financial incentives for improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes as reported by mothers during household interviews.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Stanford University

    collaborator OTHER

  • International Initiative for Impact Evaluation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Department for International Development, United Kingdom

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Sambodhi Research and Communication Pvt., Ltd.

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Duke University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Manoj Mohanan, PhD, MPH · Duke University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-08-31
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2015-11-30

Countries

  • India

Study Locations

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