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Prenatal Care Program in Dingyuan County (EPCP)

F

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Status

Completed

Conditions

Prenatal Care

Treatments

Behavioral: training

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01054235
199901118

Details and patient eligibility

About

The general objective of this study is to evaluate prenatal care in the specific context of rural China. It also aims to define the optimal content of prenatal care for the context of rural China, to evaluate the effect of such prenatal care on infant and maternal outcomes, using a community based, well designed controlled trial in rural counties. Finally, it aims to describe the process of conducting a controlled study using community resources.

Full description

The study was conducted in a rural county of 900,000 people in Anhui province, in eastern China. The total area of the county is almost 3,000 square kilometres. The majority of the population of the county is engaged in farming. In terms of national GDP rankings, the study county is typical of less developed rural areas in China. Twenty townships (10 interventions and 10 control) out of a total of 55 were selected - on the basis of having sufficient health facilities and staff - for a controlled trial on the introduction of systematic prenatal care in the area.

Enrollment

5,000 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

20+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • pregnant woman in program area (in 20 townships) from August 2000 to March 2003

Exclusion criteria

  • outsiders of program area

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

5,000 participants in 1 patient group

experimental
Experimental group
Description:
The intervention consisted of 1) training township midwives, 2) informing women and men in the community of the importance of prenatal care, 3) providing intervention township hospitals with basic medical instruments used in prenatal care (i.e. blood pressure monitors, weighing scales for mothers and newborns, stethoscopes). For control ,none of the intervention will be given.
Treatment:
Behavioral: training

Trial contacts and locations

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