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Community Based Strategies to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Northern Nigeria

NCT01487707 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 7200

Last updated 2019-01-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The objective of this cluster randomized controlled trial is to assess the impact of several community-based interventions that address the key factors underlying the high maternal mortality, as well as neonatal mortality and morbidity in northern Nigeria. The interventions, include:

1. a Voluntary Health Worker Program (VHW)
2. the VHW program with provision of a safe birth kit
3. the VHW program with community folk media activities.

Conditions

  • Maternal Mortality

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Voluntary Health Worker (VHW) Program

Voluntary Health Workers will conduct door-to-door campaigns on maternal and child health, and will visit pregnant women regularly to to educate and to encourage use of antenatal care and facility-based deliveries.

BEHAVIORAL

Safe Birth Kit

A safe birth kit, containing sterile materials to diminish infection risk will be given to pregnant women.

BEHAVIORAL

Community Folk Media Campaigns

Community-wide media activities, including dramas, intended to address community norms regarding maternal and child health.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Planned Parenthood Federation Nigeria

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • MacArthur Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jessica Leight, PhD · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Vandana Sharma, MD · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Martina Bjorkman-Nyqvist, PhD · Stockholm School of Economics

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
49 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-12-31
Primary Completion
2016-10-31
Completion
2016-10-31

Countries

  • Nigeria

Study Locations

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