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An Implementation Study of Interventions to Promote Safe Motherhood in Jimma Zone Ethiopia

3 de noviembre de 2020 actualizado por: Manisha Kulkarni, PhD, University of Ottawa
Ethiopia has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality among all countries in Africa and indeed worldwide, with a maternal mortality ratio of 676 per 100,000 live births in 2011 (UNFPA, 2012). The majority of maternal deaths are preventable through early detection and management of complications, and access to adequate obstetric care (Say et al, 2014). However, in 2011 only 34% of women received antenatal care, 10% of births were delivered at a health facility and 7% of women received postnatal care during the first two days after delivery (Ethiopian DHS, 2011). Large distances and poor access to transport are two major obstacles that women face when trying to access services. In order to facilitate timely access to obstetric care, the Ethiopian Government introduced Maternity Waiting Areas (MWAs) at health centres to enable women to stay close to health facilities as they await delivery. Utilization of MWAs has generally been low due to the poor state of the homes and lack of adequate community support. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of two interventions to promote safe motherhood in increasing coverage of maternal health care services: (i) upgraded MWAs (ii) community and religious leader sensitization using information, education and communication (IEC) materials. The IEC materials are expected to increase leader awareness and support of antenatal care, facility deliveries, postnatal care and MWA use. Together with increased use of functional MWAs, improved support from leaders is expected to increase the proportion of facility-based births in interventions area. The interventions are also expected to positively impact antenatal care and postnatal care use in the study districts.

Descripción general del estudio

Estado

Terminado

Descripción detallada

A three-arm cluster trial design will be used to measure the impact of the intervention packages in three districts (Gomma, Seka Chekorsa, Kersa) in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia. Twenty-four clusters with 160 individuals each are required to detect a 17% change in the primary outcome (proportion of facility-based births) with 80% power,assuming a cluster autocorrelation of 0.8 and an intra-cluster correlation coefficient of 0.1. Primary health care units (PHCU) which consist of a health centre and several community-based health posts will serve as trial clusters. All PHCUs with maternity waiting areas (MWAs) constructed will be eligible for selection. Eligible women will be randomly selected from PHCU catchment areas stratified by MWA functionality and health centre basic emergency obstetric care (BEmOC) capacity. This is to ensure balanced distribution of poorly functioning MWAs and facilities with diminished BEmOC capacity between trial arms.

Cross-sectional household surveys will be conducted with eligible women to collect information on socio-demographics, knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding maternal health services, reproductive history and maternal health service utilization. Surveys will be administered by trained interviewers on tablet computers programmed using Open Data Kit at baseline prior to intervention roll out and at endline. Multilevel regression models will be used to quantify the effect of the intervention packages on outcomes of interest. Random effect terms for PHCUs will be included to account for the clustered nature of the data.

Tipo de estudio

Intervencionista

Inscripción (Actual)

3784

Fase

  • No aplica

Criterios de participación

Los investigadores buscan personas que se ajusten a una determinada descripción, denominada criterio de elegibilidad. Algunos ejemplos de estos criterios son el estado de salud general de una persona o tratamientos previos.

Criterio de elegibilidad

Edades elegibles para estudiar

15 años y mayores (Niño, Adulto, Adulto Mayor)

Acepta Voluntarios Saludables

No

Géneros elegibles para el estudio

Femenino

Descripción

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Women who were pregnant up to one year prior to the baseline survey and had a live birth, stillbirth or abortion (spontaneous or induced) and are residents in the study districts during the survey period are eligible to take part in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Women who are not able to provide informed consent due to severe illness or mental health conditions.

Plan de estudios

Esta sección proporciona detalles del plan de estudio, incluido cómo está diseñado el estudio y qué mide el estudio.

¿Cómo está diseñado el estudio?

Detalles de diseño

  • Propósito principal: Investigación de servicios de salud
  • Asignación: Aleatorizado
  • Modelo Intervencionista: Asignación paralela
  • Enmascaramiento: Único

Armas e Intervenciones

Grupo de participantes/brazo
Intervención / Tratamiento
Sin intervención: Control
Experimental: MWA+IEC intervention
The MWA intervention will involve upgrading existing maternity waiting areas to ensure that essential supplies and services are available to create a comfortable environment for women to temporarily reside in and have easy access to skilled obstetric services.

Community and religious leaders will each attend one-day workshops designed using participatory, adult learning methods to help participants better understand the importance of maternal health care services, identify barriers to accessing care and to strategize how to promote utilization of services. Half-day workshops will conducted in subsequent years to build on shared experiences.

Health extension workers will attend 3-day workshops to identify enablers and barriers to implementation of the safe motherhood components of the health extension program and strategize on how to engage community and religious leaders to support access to maternal health care services in their communities.

Half-day workshops will conducted in subsequent years for each of the participant groups to build on shared experiences.

Experimental: IEC intervention

Community and religious leaders will each attend one-day workshops designed using participatory, adult learning methods to help participants better understand the importance of maternal health care services, identify barriers to accessing care and to strategize how to promote utilization of services. Half-day workshops will conducted in subsequent years to build on shared experiences.

Health extension workers will attend 3-day workshops to identify enablers and barriers to implementation of the safe motherhood components of the health extension program and strategize on how to engage community and religious leaders to support access to maternal health care services in their communities.

Half-day workshops will conducted in subsequent years for each of the participant groups to build on shared experiences.

¿Qué mide el estudio?

Medidas de resultado primarias

Medida de resultado
Medida Descripción
Periodo de tiempo
Facility-based birth coverage
Periodo de tiempo: Information on the primary outcome will be collected through surveys at baseline (prior to intervention roll out) and endline (approximately one and a half years after intervention roll out has commenced)
Proportion of women who report giving birth to their last child at a health facility (health centre or hospital) which has skilled birth attendants present (doctor, midwife, clinical nurse).
Information on the primary outcome will be collected through surveys at baseline (prior to intervention roll out) and endline (approximately one and a half years after intervention roll out has commenced)

Medidas de resultado secundarias

Medida de resultado
Medida Descripción
Periodo de tiempo
Antenatal care coverage
Periodo de tiempo: Information on secondary outcomes will be collected through surveys at baseline (prior to intervention roll out) and endline (approximately one and a half years after intervention roll out has commenced)
Proportion of women who report making at least one antenatal care visit to a health facility during their last pregnancy.
Information on secondary outcomes will be collected through surveys at baseline (prior to intervention roll out) and endline (approximately one and a half years after intervention roll out has commenced)
Postnatal care coverage
Periodo de tiempo: Information on secondary outcomes will be collected through surveys at baseline (prior to intervention roll out) and endline (approximately one and a half years after intervention roll out has commenced)
Proportion of women who report receiving a checkup from a healthcare worker at least once during the 42 days after delivery of their last child.
Information on secondary outcomes will be collected through surveys at baseline (prior to intervention roll out) and endline (approximately one and a half years after intervention roll out has commenced)

Colaboradores e Investigadores

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Patrocinador

Investigadores

  • Investigador principal: Manisha Kulkarni, PhD, University of Ottawa
  • Investigador principal: Lakew Abebe, MPH, Jimma University

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Fechas de registro del estudio

Estas fechas rastrean el progreso del registro del estudio y los envíos de resultados resumidos a ClinicalTrials.gov. Los registros del estudio y los resultados informados son revisados ​​por la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina (NLM) para asegurarse de que cumplan con los estándares de control de calidad específicos antes de publicarlos en el sitio web público.

Fechas importantes del estudio

Inicio del estudio (Actual)

15 de octubre de 2016

Finalización primaria (Actual)

1 de mayo de 2019

Finalización del estudio (Actual)

1 de octubre de 2020

Fechas de registro del estudio

Enviado por primera vez

27 de septiembre de 2017

Primero enviado que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad

27 de septiembre de 2017

Publicado por primera vez (Actual)

3 de octubre de 2017

Actualizaciones de registros de estudio

Última actualización publicada (Actual)

5 de noviembre de 2020

Última actualización enviada que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad

3 de noviembre de 2020

Última verificación

1 de noviembre de 2020

Más información

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Información sobre medicamentos y dispositivos, documentos del estudio

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No

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No

producto fabricado y exportado desde los EE. UU.

No

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