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- Clinical Trial NCT05565196
Birth Companion Intervention in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria
April 1, 2024 updated by: Della Berhanu, Jhpiego
Implementing the Birth Companion Intervention Package in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Impact on Coverage of Facility Births Attended by a Companion.
The study aims to assess the acceptability; feasibility; implementation cost; and penetration of the birth companion intervention introduced at health facilities.
It is a multi-country study (Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria) with a two parallel arm cluster randomized controlled trial design.
The study duration will approximately be 16 months.
Study Overview
Status
Recruiting
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The overall purpose of this study is to investigate how a birth companion (BC) intervention can be implemented to increase the proportion of women who are accompanied by a BC during labor, childbirth, and postpartum in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria.
After baseline data collection, facilities will be randomized in a 3:1 ratio; for every three facilities that receive the BC intervention, one facility will serve as a control facility.
After randomization, over the course of two months, intervention facilities will start preparing to introduce the BC intervention to facilitate presence of BC during labor and delivery, while the control facilities will continue to provide the local standard of routine care.
The intervention will have the following components: 1) Orient facilities and providers to benefits of BC; 2) Develop/update formal standard operating procedures (SOP) for implementing BC and develop plans to implement SOP; 3) Assess data required for implementation and an audit and feedback cycle for tracking coverage; 4) Assess and carry out modest structural changes in facilities to facilitate BC; 5) Use human centered design to develop materials/resources and a means to distinguish/recognize the BC, taking into account common barriers and misconceptions; 6) Prepare providers to integrate BC into care team; 7) Orient antenatal care (ANC) clients to BC rationale and selection; 8) Prepare BCs to support women; 9) Iterate model and track intervention/policies.
Investigators will use a mixed methods approach to address the implementation research questions with exit interviews, health facility register data extraction, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews.
Investigators will collect quarterly quantitative and qualitative data over the course of one week each, for a total of five data collection periods including baseline.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Estimated)
4200
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Contact
- Name: Della Berhanu, PhD
- Phone Number: +251026783038
- Email: della.berhanu@jhpiego.org
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Lisa Noguchi, PhD, CNM
- Phone Number: +1202-664-2721
- Email: Lisa.noguchi@jhpiego.org
Study Locations
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Recruiting
- Saint Paul's Millennium College
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Contact:
- Felagot Taddese, MD
- Phone Number: +251913056809
- Email: felagot1989@yahoo.com
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Machakos, Kenya
- Recruiting
- Machakos County Health Office
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Contact:
- Halima Aden Ahmed
- Phone Number: +254720835338
- Email: halimaliha14@gmail.com
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Murang'a, Kenya
- Recruiting
- Murang'a County Health Office
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Contact:
- Caroline Mucio Macharia
- Phone Number: +254721904960
- Email: cm433841@gmail.com
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Kano, Nigeria
- Not yet recruiting
- Kano State Health Office
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Contact:
- Bashir Sunusi
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Contact:
- Phone Number: +234 8034037072
- Email: Mbs966@yahoo.com
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Karu, Nigeria
- Not yet recruiting
- Nasarawa Sate Health Office
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Contact:
- Ibrahim Adamu Alhassan
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Contact:
- Phone Number: +234 8036018579
- Email: Ibrahima57@yahoo.com
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
15 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
Facilities
- Prior to randomization, head of facility grants permission for facility to participate in the study
- Be willing to develop, adopt, and implement the BC standard operating procedures and other components of the BC intervention package
- Have more than 16 births per month during the past three months
- Be in the Addis Ababa and surrounding area, Ethiopia, in Muranga and Machakos County, Kenya or Nasarawa and Kano states, Nigeria
Providers
- At the time of enrollment, providers need to work in ANC or labor and delivery ward(s) of the study facilities
- Able and willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study
Mothers
- Per participant report, age 15 years or older
- Have vaginal birth
- Able and willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study
Birth companions
- Per participant report, for emancipated minors, age 15 years or older. If not an emancipated minor, per participant report, 18 years or older
- Was present at labor and/or delivery
- Identified as a BC by the delivering mother
- Able and willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study
Unit managers
- Involved in the implementation and management of the BC intervention
- Able and willing to provide informed consent to participate in the study
Exclusion Criteria:
Facilities
- Facility staff strike or other disturbance to routine care noted prior to randomization that would pose significant challenge(s) to achieving the study objectives
Providers
- N/A
Mothers
- Unable to participate in an interview due to their physical or emotional condition caused by an adverse delivery outcome.
- Unable to provide valid information because of mental or other serious health condition
Birth companions
- Unable to provide valid information because of mental or other serious health condition
Unit managers
- N/A
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Birth companion intervention arm
Women who deliver in facilities in the experimental arm will be exposed to a facility-based intervention designed to improve companionship in labor, childbirth, and postpartum periods.
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The intervention will have the following components: 1) Orient facilities and providers to benefits of BC; 2) Develop/update formal standard operating procedures (SOP) for implementing BC and develop plans to implement SOP; 3) Assess data required for implementation and an audit and feedback cycle for tracking coverage; 4) Assess and carry out modest structural changes in facilities to facilitate BC; 5) Use human centered design to develop materials/resources and a means to distinguish/recognize the BC, taking into account common barriers and misconceptions; 6) Prepare providers to integrate BC into care team; 7) Orient ANC clients to BC rationale and selection; 8) Prepare BCs to support women; 9) Iterate model and track intervention/policies.
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No Intervention: Standard of care arm
Women who deliver in facilities in the experimental arm will be exposed to the standard of care for labor, delivery, and the postpartum period.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Birth Companion Coverage
Time Frame: Between baseline and Endline survey (12 months after intervention is initiated).
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Between baseline and endline surveys, the investigators will measure the change in the proportion of women who are accompanied by a birth companion during labor, childbirth, and postpartum.
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Between baseline and Endline survey (12 months after intervention is initiated).
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Choice of Birth Companion
Time Frame: Between baseline and Endline survey (12 months after intervention is initiated).
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Between baseline and endline surveys, among women who report having a birth companion, the investigators will measure the change in the proportion who report that their birth companion was the one of their choice.
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Between baseline and Endline survey (12 months after intervention is initiated).
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Change in Experience of Care (Mothers'-Quantitative)
Time Frame: Between baseline and Endline survey (12 months after intervention is initiated).
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Between baseline and endline surveys, the investigators will measure the change in mothers' score on Person-Centered Maternity Care scale.
This scale has 33 items with a score ranging from 0-98.
A low score signifies a better outcome.
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Between baseline and Endline survey (12 months after intervention is initiated).
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Experience of Care (Mothers'-Qualitative)
Time Frame: Quarterly after initiation of the intervention (for a period of 12 months).
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In intervention facilities, among women who had birth companions investigators will use in-depth interviews to explore their perception of having a birth companion.
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Quarterly after initiation of the intervention (for a period of 12 months).
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Feasibility (Unit managers and Providers-Quantitative)
Time Frame: Endline survey (12 months after intervention is initiated).
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In intervention facilities, investigators will measure the proportion of providers and unit managers who report the physical environment of care supports the presence of birth companions during labor, birth, and the postnatal period.
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Endline survey (12 months after intervention is initiated).
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Feasibility (Unit Managers-Qualitative)
Time Frame: Quarterly after the initiation of the intervention (for a period of 12 months).
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In intervention facilities, investigators will use key informant interviews to understand unit managers' perception on the feasibility of having birth companions.
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Quarterly after the initiation of the intervention (for a period of 12 months).
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Acceptability (Mothers)
Time Frame: Quarterly after the initiation of the intervention (for a period of 12 months).
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In intervention facilities, investigators will use in-depth interviews to understand mothers' perception on the acceptability of having birth companions.
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Quarterly after the initiation of the intervention (for a period of 12 months).
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Acceptability (Birth Companions)
Time Frame: Quarterly after the initiation of the intervention (for a period of 12 months).
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In intervention facilities, investigators will use in-depth interviews to understand birth companions' perception on the acceptability of being a birth companion.
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Quarterly after the initiation of the intervention (for a period of 12 months).
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Acceptability (Providers)
Time Frame: Quarterly after the initiation of the intervention (for a period of 12 months).
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In intervention facilities, investigators will use focus group discussions to understand providers' perception on the acceptability of having birth companions.
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Quarterly after the initiation of the intervention (for a period of 12 months).
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Acceptability (Unit Managers)
Time Frame: Quarterly after the initiation of the intervention (for a period of 12 months).
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In intervention facilities, investigators will use qualitative methods understand unit managers' perception on the acceptability of having birth companions.
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Quarterly after the initiation of the intervention (for a period of 12 months).
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Potential association between baseline facility readiness and intervention coverage
Time Frame: Endline survey (12 months after intervention is initiated)
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In intervention facilities, investigators will measure score on facility readiness to change (at baseline) to explore potential association with coverage of the intervention at endline.
The tool used for facility staff has scale with 19 items and the score ranges from 0 to 57.
The tool used for facility leaders has a scale with 34 items and a score ranging from 0 to 100.
Low score means better outcome.
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Endline survey (12 months after intervention is initiated)
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Cost
Time Frame: Endline survey (12 months after intervention is initiated)
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In intervention facilities investigators will collect data on facility-level costs for updates to physical environment of care and other implementation costs.
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Endline survey (12 months after intervention is initiated)
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Study record dates
These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
October 10, 2022
Primary Completion (Estimated)
December 15, 2024
Study Completion (Estimated)
January 15, 2025
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
September 28, 2022
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
October 3, 2022
First Posted (Actual)
October 4, 2022
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
April 2, 2024
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
April 1, 2024
Last Verified
April 1, 2024
More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- IRB00021183
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
NO
IPD Plan Description
Per current Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation policy for study data
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
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