Reduction of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes With a Smartphone Application in Ghana

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether use of the Safe Delivery smartphone application by midwives can reduce excess blood loss from bleeding, and infant death during childbirth in Ghanaian women. Moreover, it will be investigated whether the Safe Delivery application can increase midwives' knowledge and skills in managing childbirth.

Fifteen hospitals in Greater Accra, Ghana, will be cluster randomized to either use the Safe Delivery application (intervention), or to no intervention (control). In the intervention hospitals, midwives will be educated in the use of Safe Delivery. Pregnant women will be enrolled at delivery and followed until 7 days postpartum. Data collection will begin July 2014 and is expected to be finished by October 2014.

Conditions

• Postpartum Hemorrhage
• Delivery, Obstetric
• Stillbirth
• Infant Mortality
• Midwifery

Interventions

DEVICE

Safe Delivery smartphone application

The intervention is the use of a smartphone application called Safe Delivery, designed by University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Maternity Foundation Denmark. The application contains animated videos aimed to train midwives in the prevention and management of postpartum hemorrhage and the treatment of neonatal resuscitation. The instructions in the videos are based on WHO recommendations, and the application is designed to be an on-going tool for midwives, so that they can drill themselves in the emergencies of postpartum hemorrhage and neonatal resuscitation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Copenhagen

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Ghana

  collaborator OTHER

• Maternity Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Augustinus Fonden

  collaborator OTHER

• Lundbeck Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• Edith and Godtfred Kirk Christiansen Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Aase and Ejnar Danielsens Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Aarhus

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Christina MB Nielsen, BSc, MPH · Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-07-31

Primary Completion

2014-09-30

Completion

2014-09-30

Countries

• Ghana

Study Locations