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Group Antenatal Care: The Power of Peers for Increasing Skilled Birth Attendance in Achham, Nepal

NCT02330887 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2184

Last updated 2021-06-25

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Summary

In rural Nepal, the major drivers of underutilization of skilled birth attendance are poverty, poor social support and inadequate birth planning. Drawing from similar programs that have been shown to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes, we have designed a group antenatal care program that uses a participatory learning and action process to engage women in identifying and solving problems accessing maternity care services and create a supportive social network. We plan to test a group antenatal care program that will change antenatal care in three major ways: 1) conduct care in a group setting with women matched by gestational age, 2) incorporate participatory learning and action, and 3) provide expert and facilitated peer counseling.

Conditions

  • Prenatal Care

Interventions

OTHER

Group Antenatal Care

The group antenatal care intervention will match pregnant women by gestational age in the intervention village clusters and assign them to peer group sessions facilitated by local healthcare clinic staff.

OTHER

Individual Antenatal Care

Pregnant women in control village clusters will have individual antenatal care sessions with their healthcare provider.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Possible

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • David Citrin, PhD, MPH · Possible

  • Duncan Maru, MD, PhD · Possible

  • Biraj Karmacharya, MBBS, Msc · University of Washington

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-08-01
Primary Completion
2016-07-10
Completion
2016-07-10

Countries

  • Nepal

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