Analyses confirm effect of women's groups on maternal and newborn deaths.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

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

1. Belonging: a meta-theme analysis of women's community-making in group antenatal and postnatal care.Frontiers in public health · 2025
   Pooled it
2. Interventions to reduce preterm birth and stillbirth, and improve outcomes for babies born preterm in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Journal of global health · 2021
   Pooled it
3. Process evaluation of a knowledge translation intervention using facilitation of local stakeholder groups to improve neonatal survival in the Quang Ninh province, Vietnam.Trials · 2016
   Trial
4. Early results of an integrated maternal, newborn, and child health program, Northern Nigeria, 2009 to 2011.BMC public health · 2013
   Trial
5. Health layering of self-help groups: impacts on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition in Bihar, India.Journal of global health · 2020
   Article
6. Disrupting gender norms in health systems: making the case for change.Lancet (London, England) · 2019
   Review
7. Research priorities to improve the management of acute malnutrition in infants aged less than six months (MAMI).PLoS medicine · 2015
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  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
• Comment on
  Can women's groups reduce maternal and newborn deaths?2013

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Funding

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as