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Bihar Family Health Initiative (Ananya)

NCT02726230 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 27633

Last updated 2016-04-01

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Summary

Ananya was funded by BMGF to reduce maternal, newborn, and child mortality; fertility; and child undernutrition in Bihar, India. Ananya involved multi-level interventions designed to build front line health worker (FLW) capacities and reach to communities and households, as well as to strengthen public health facilities and quality of care to increase maternal and neonatal care and health behaviors, and thus survival. From 2012 to 2014, eight focal districts in western and central Bihar.received Ananya, while 30 districts did not. Data were collected from mothers of infants 0-11 months at baseline and mothers of infants 0-23 months at 2 year follow-up, from comparable public health blocks in Ananya and Control districts to assess Ananya effects on quality and quantity of FLW home visits, postnatal health behaviors, and among older infants/toddlers, complementary feeding and vaccination. Difference in difference analyses were used to assess Ananya outcome effects in this quasi experimental study.

Conditions

  • Maternal and Child Health

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Ananya

The Ananya program was developed and implemented via a partnership of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Government of Bihar as a means of improving reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) outcomes in the state, in particular focusing on improving health behaviors and service utilization in the final trimester of pregnancy and early postpartum period. Ananya was designed as a series of supply- and demand-side efforts to improve health. Efforts were focused on strengthening outreach services in quantity and quality, improving quality of facility services, and mobilizing communities to improve health behaviors. The Ananya program included training, mobilizing, and monitoring of government frontline health workers (FLWs, including anganwadi workers- AWWS, auxiliary nurse midwives- ANMs, and community health workers-ASHAs) to increase quantity and quality of home visits for RMNH screenings and services, and media messages to increase demand for services.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Yamini Atmavilas · Bill and Melinda Gates Foundattion

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-04-30
Completion
2014-04-30

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