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Assessing Childbirth-related Complications at the Community Level in Kenya

NCT01665456 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 585

Last updated 2014-04-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Kenya is one of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa that still experience high maternal mortality. For instance, in 2008/09 maternal mortality ratio was estimated to be 488/100,000 live births. Direct obstetric complications such as puerperal sepsis, postpartum hemorrhage, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, obstructed labor and indirect causes including HIV, malaria and anemia in pregnancy are responsible for the majority of these cases. Just under 44% of births in Kenya are delivered under the supervision of a skilled birth attendant.

The overall objective of this study is to determine the effect of provider type in the occurrence and management of serious childbirth related complications among postpartum women at the community level in Bungoma and Lugari Districts of Western Province, Kenya.

The proposed study will employ a case control study design in which women with obstetric complication(s)will be cases and women without obstetric complications will be controls. Controls will be sampled concurrently with the cases. Each time a new case is diagnosed, a control is selected from the population at risk in the neighborhood at that point in time.

The study population will consist of women aged 15-49 years with a delivery in the past 12 months. A woman who reports having experienced a birth-related complication will be recruited as a case while woman who reports having experienced no complication during child-birth will be recruited as a control.

Conditions

  • Puerperal Sepsis
  • Postpartum Hemorrhage
  • Preeclampsia and Eclampsia
  • Retained Placenta, Without Hemorrhage
  • Obstructed Labor Due to Breech Presentation

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Shiphrah N. Kuria, MB ChB, MMed (OBGYN) · Division of Reproductive Health- Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation

  • Wilson N. Liambila, MSc · Population Council

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-08-31
Primary Completion
2013-11-30
Completion
2014-03-31

Countries

  • Kenya

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