Community Based Strategies to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Northern Nigeria

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

Status: Completed

Conditions: Maternal Mortality

Treatments: Behavioral: Community Folk Media Campaigns; Behavioral: Voluntary Health Worker (VHW) Program; Behavioral: Safe Birth Kit

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01487707

019368-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this cluster randomized controlled trial is to assess the impact of several community-based interventions that address the key factors underlying the high maternal mortality, as well as neonatal mortality and morbidity in northern Nigeria. The interventions, include:

1. a Voluntary Health Worker Program (VHW)
2. the VHW program with provision of a safe birth kit
3. the VHW program with community folk media activities.

Enrollment: 7,200 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 15 to 49 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women of reproductive age who live in the study clusters who provide consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Eligible women who do not consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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7,200 participants in 3 patient groups

Voluntary Health Worker (VHW) Program

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Voluntary Health Worker (VHW) Program

VHW program plus Safe Birth Kit

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Voluntary Health Worker (VHW) Program

Behavioral: Safe Birth Kit

VHW program plus Folk Media Activities

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Voluntary Health Worker (VHW) Program

Behavioral: Community Folk Media Campaigns