NCT04090762

Improving Perinatal Outcomes Using Conditional and Targeted Transfers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36,607 (actual)
• Sponsor: RAND · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15 Years – 49 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

It has been estimated that increasing the use of skilled care during childbirth could prevent up to 1.5 million maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths by 2025. Conditional cash transfer programs, in which women receive cash payments conditioned on the use of maternal health services, are increasingly being used as a mechanism to increase uptake. In this study, the investigators randomly assign households to receive varying cash amounts conditioned on uptake of recommended pregnancy and delivery care. The investigators crosscut this with an intervention in which pregnant women receive information about their risk type. This randomized trial will provide new evidence about the potential efficacy of targeting cash transfers by pregnancy risk. This study will take place in 288 primary health service areas (HSAs) in Nigeria.

Conditions

• Utilization, Health Care
• Birth Outcomes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Conditional cash transfer	Pregnant women receive cash payments conditioned on their use of prenatal services and use of a health facility for child birth.
BEHAVIORAL	Risk information provision	Pregnant women who exhibit characteristics associated with a greater risk of a poor birth outcome - these will be identified from the medical and epidemiological literature - will be informed that they possess these characteristics.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-07-08
• Primary completion: 2021-06-30
• Completion: 2025-04-30
• First posted: 2019-09-16
• Last updated: 2026-01-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Nigeria