Participatory women's groups: ready for prime time?

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. How and why do women's groups (WGs) improve the quality of maternal and child health (MCH) care? A systematic review of the literature.BMJ open · 2022
   Pooled it
2. Community-based approaches for neonatal survival: meta-analyses of randomized trial data.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2017
   Pooled it
3. Effectiveness of a Home-Based Counselling Strategy on Neonatal Care and Survival: A Cluster-Randomised Trial in Six Districts of Rural Southern Tanzania.PLoS medicine · 2015
   Trial
4. Exploring change over time in community mobilization domains: results from a maternity waiting home intervention in rural Zambia.International journal for equity in health · 2021
   Article
5. Exploring the impact of a community participatory intervention on women's capability: a qualitative study in Gulu Northern Uganda.BMC women's health · 2021
   Article
6. Do Participatory Learning and Action Women's Groups Alone or Combined with Cash or Food Transfers Expand Women's Agency in Rural Nepal?The journal of development studies · 2019
   Article
7. 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
8. Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation and Research: Reflections on the Research Approach Used to Understand the Complexity of Maternal Health Issues in South Sudan.Qualitative health research · 2017
   Article
9. Validating an Agency-based Tool for Measuring Women's Empowerment in a Complex Public Health Trial in Rural Nepal.Journal of human development and capabilities · 2017
   Article
10. Social determinants of inequities in under-nutrition (weight-for-age) among under-5 children: a cross sectional study in Gumla district of Jharkhand, India.International journal for equity in health · 2016
    Article
11. Strategies to increase demand for maternal health services in resource-limited settings: challenges to be addressed.BMC public health · 2015
    Review
12. The value of building health promotion capacities within communities: evidence from a maternal health intervention in Guinea.Health policy and planning · 2015
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Women's groups practising participatory learning and action to improve maternal and newborn health in low-resource settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.2013

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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