Commentary: Participatory interventions reduce maternal and child mortality among the poorest, but how do they work?

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Innovative approaches for improving maternal and newborn health--A landscape analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2015
   Pooled it
2. A review of strategies and levels of community engagement in strengths-based and needs-based health communication interventions.Frontiers in public health · 2024
   Review
3. The long-term impact of community mobilisation through participatory women's groups on women's agency in the household: A follow-up study to the Makwanpur trial.PloS one · 2018
   Article
4. Long-term impact of community-based participatory women's groups on child and maternal mortality and child disability: follow-up of a cluster randomised trial in rural Nepal.BMJ global health · 2018
   Article
5. Honouring the value of people in public health: a different kind of p-value.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2015
   Article
6. Care Groups II: A Summary of the Child Survival Outcomes Achieved Using Volunteer Community Health Workers in Resource-Constrained Settings.Global health, science and practice · 2015
   Article
7. Examining the links between community participation and health outcomes: a review of the literature.Health policy and planning · 2014
   Review

Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Authors' response: the equity impact of participatory women's groups to reduce neonatal mortality in India: secondary analysis of a cluster-randomized trial.2013
• Comment on
  The equity impact of participatory women's groups to reduce neonatal mortality in India: secondary analysis of a cluster-randomised trial.2013
• Erratum issued

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