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The effect of participatory women's groups on birth outcomes in Bangladesh: does coverage matter? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
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- Effects of consumers and health providers working in partnership on health services planning, delivery and evaluation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Community-based maternal and newborn educational care packages for improving neonatal health and survival in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Health system and community level interventions for improving antenatal care coverage and health outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Community-based intervention packages for reducing maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality and improving neonatal outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Community engagement to enhance child survival and early development in low- and middle-income countries: an evidence review.Journal of health communication · 2014Pooled it
- Women's groups practising participatory learning and action to improve maternal and newborn health in low-resource settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Lancet (London, England) · 2013Pooled it
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- The effect of increased coverage of participatory women's groups on neonatal mortality in Bangladesh: A cluster randomized trial.JAMA pediatrics · 2013Trial
- The equity impact of participatory women's groups to reduce neonatal mortality in India: secondary analysis of a cluster-randomised trial.International journal of epidemiology · 2013Trial
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- Improving mental ill-health with psycho-social group interventions in South Asia-A scoping review using a realist lens.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Feasibility of a cluster randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of peer-led health education interventions to increase uptake of retinal examination for diabetic retinopathy in Kirinyaga, Kenya: a pilot trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2020Article
- Peer-support to increase uptake of screening for diabetic retinopathy: process evaluation of the DURE cluster randomized trial.Tropical medicine and health · 2020Article
- Exploring the equity impact of a maternal and newborn health intervention: a qualitative study of participatory women's groups in rural South Asia and Africa.International journal for equity in health · 2019Article
- Reaching the poor with health interventions: programme-incidence analysis of seven randomised trials of women's groups to reduce newborn mortality in Asia and Africa.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2016Article
- Socio-economic determinants of household food security and women's dietary diversity in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2015Article
- The effect of participatory women's groups on infant feeding and child health knowledge, behaviour and outcomes in rural Bangladesh: a controlled before-and-after study.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2015Article
- Determinants and consequences of short birth interval in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2014Article
- Collecting and analysing cost data for complex public health trials: reflections on practice.Global health action · 2014Article
- Inadequate knowledge of neonatal danger signs among recently delivered women in southwestern rural Uganda: a community survey.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundProgress on neonatal survival has been slow in most countries. While there is evidence on what works to reduce newborn mortality, there is limited knowledge on how to deliver interventions effectively when health systems are weak. Cluster randomized trials have shown strong reductions in neonatal mortality using community mobilisation with women's groups in rural Nepal and India. A similar trial in Bangladesh showed no impact. A main hypothesis is that this negative finding is due to the much lower coverage of women's groups in the intervention population in Bangladesh compared to India and Nepal. For evidence-based policy making it is important to examine if women's group coverage is a main determinant of their impact. The study aims to test the effect on newborn and maternal health outcomes of a participatory women's group intervention with a high population coverage of women's groups.
methodsA cluster randomised trial of a participatory women's group intervention will be conducted in 3 districts of rural Bangladesh. As we aim to study a women's group intervention with high population coverage, the same 9 intervention and 9 control unions will be used as in the 2005-2007 trial. These had been randomly allocated using the districts as strata. To increase coverage, 648 new groups were formed in addition to the 162 existing groups that were part of the previous trial. An open cohort of women who are permanent residents in the union in which their delivery or death was identified, is enrolled. Women and their newborns are included after birth, or, if a woman dies during pregnancy, after her death. Excluded are women who are temporary residents in the union in which their birth or death was identified. The primary outcome is neonatal mortality in the last 24 months of the study. A low cost surveillance system will be used to record all birth outcomes and deaths to women of reproductive age in the study population. Data on home care practices and health care use are collected through interviews.
trial registrationISRCTN: ISRCTN01805825.
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