NCT01487707

Community Based Strategies to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Northern Nigeria

Strengthening the Midwife Service Scheme With Community Focused Interventions: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Field Trial in Nigeria

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 7,200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15 Years – 49 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Maternal Mortality

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Voluntary Health Worker (VHW) Program	Voluntary Health Workers will conduct door-to-door campaigns on maternal and child health, and will visit pregnant women regularly to to educate and to encourage use of antenatal care and facility-based deliveries.
BEHAVIORAL	Safe Birth Kit	A safe birth kit, containing sterile materials to diminish infection risk will be given to pregnant women.
BEHAVIORAL	Community Folk Media Campaigns	Community-wide media activities, including dramas, intended to address community norms regarding maternal and child health.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-12-01
• Primary completion: 2016-10-01
• Completion: 2016-10-01
• First posted: 2011-12-07
• Last updated: 2019-01-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Nigeria