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Effects of a Health Workforce Capacity Building and Quality Improvement Intervention in Kinshasa

NCT03363308 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 250

Last updated 2020-07-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate a health workforce capacity building and quality improvement intervention focused on integrated day-of-birth and post-pregnancy care at 16 hospitals in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. The intervention package consists of a low-dose, high-frequency (LDHF) training of health workers, support for quality improvement teams, and provision of critical equipment, supplies and drugs within a quality improvement (QI) framework.

Conditions

  • Maternal Death
  • Infant Death
  • Stillbirth

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

training for health care workers supplmented by QI teams

Jhpiego will deliver maternal and newborn health and family planning (MNH+FP) training using evidence-based low-dose, high-frequency (LDHF) learning approaches and support hospital staff-led quality improvement efforts to increase the coverage of facility-based high-impact interventions, including care of the mother and newborn on the day of birth and through the first week postpartum and post abortion services.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Jhpiego

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Virgile Kikaya · Jhpiego DRC

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-11-16
Primary Completion
2020-06-30
Completion
2020-06-30

Countries

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo

Study Locations

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