NCT02517008

The Impact of Non-monetary Incentives on Facility Delivery in Rural Zambia

Measuring the Impact of Non-monetary Incentives on Facility Delivery in Rural Zambia: A Clustered Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,159 (actual)
• Sponsor: IDinsight · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study measured the impact and cost-effectiveness of a low-cost, non-monetary incentive ("mama kit") on rural facility delivery rates in Zambia.

Detailed description

This clustered randomized controlled trial assessed the impact of providing a package of childcare items (a cloth, baby diaper, and blanket) to women conditional upon delivering at a facility on facility delivery rates in rural Serenje and Chadiza Districts in Zambia. Facilities were randomized to either provide the intervention or not. Facility-level antenatal care (ANC) and delivery registers were used to measure the percentage of women attending antenatal care who delivered at a study facility during the intervention period. Results from the trial were then used to model the cost-effectiveness of mama kits at-scale in terms of cost per death averted.

Conditions

• Maternal Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mama kit	A low-cost non-monetary incentive (mama kit) was provided to all women who delivered at the facility between June 1, 2013 - Aug 31, 2013. Women were told about the intervention during ANC, and safe motherhood groups in the community promoted the intervention in the catchment areas of the treatment facilities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-06-01
• Primary completion: 2013-09-01
• Completion: 2013-09-01
• First posted: 2015-08-06
• Last updated: 2015-08-06