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Encouraging Pregnant Women to Use Skilled Birth Attendants and Its Effects on Maternal and Newborn Health in Rural Bangladesh

NCT07804069 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 504

Last updated 2026-09-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether encouraging pregnant women in rural Bangladesh to use a skilled birth attendant during childbirth can improve the health of mothers and newborns. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does the encouragement increase the use of skilled birth attendants during childbirth? Does childbirth assisted by a skilled birth attendant lower health complications among mothers and newborns?

Researchers randomly assigned pregnant women to an encouragement group or a comparison group. Women in the encouragement group received a flyer with information about childbirth facilities, skilled birth attendants, and ambulance contact details. Researchers collected information after childbirth to assess maternal and newborn health complications.

Conditions

  • Newborn Health Complications
  • Maternal Health Complications

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Skilled Birth Attendant Encouragement Intervention

Participants assigned to the encouragement group received a flyer containing information about childbirth facilities, skilled birth attendants, and ambulance contact information to encourage the use of health facilities for childbirth. The intervention was intended to encourage childbirth with the assistance of a skilled birth attendant.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hiroshima University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-10-01
Primary Completion
2024-04-04
Completion
2024-04-04

Countries

  • Bangladesh

Study Locations

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