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HIV With Innovative Group Antenatal Care in Two African Countries

NCT02999334 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 218

Last updated 2016-12-21

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Summary

The quality of antenatal care (ANC) in much of sub-Saharan Africa is constrained by severe resource and staffing shortages. The investigators adapted and piloted an evidence-based model of group antenatal care as an innovative way to improve ANC service delivery and increase health promotion. This pilot will be conducted in Malawi and Tanzania and will provide data to prepare for a large randomized controlled trial to document the impacts that group antenatal has on perinatal health outcomes. This study will ultimately inform policy and practice aimed at improving quality of antenatal care through respectful and woman-centered care to pregnant women.

Conditions

  • Prenatal Care

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Group Antenatal Care

To examine the effect of type of care on completion of the recommended antenatal and postnatal visits as well as perinatal health outcomes, including knowledge, behaviors, psychosocial well-being, pregnancy-related empowerment, satisfaction with ANC care.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Illinois at Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Crystal L Patil, PhD · University of Illinois at Chicago

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-09-30
Primary Completion
2015-05-31
Completion
2016-08-31

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