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Ghana's Ensure Mothers and Babies Regular Access to Care (EMBRACE) program: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
- Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Schedules for home visits in the early postpartum period.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Breastfeeding education and support for women with twins or higher order multiples.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Health system and community level interventions for improving antenatal care coverage and health outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
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- Effectiveness of an intervention package on the continuum of care among mothers and their knowledge of non-communicable diseases: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Myanmar.BMC public health · 2026Trial
- Evaluation of a package of continuum of care interventions for improved maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes and service coverage in Ghana: A cluster-randomized trial.PLoS medicine · 2021Trial
- EMBRACE intervention to improve the continuum of care in maternal and newborn health in Ghana: The RE-AIM framework-based evaluation.Journal of global health · 2021Trial
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- Exploring the effect of implementation and context on a stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial of a vital sign triage device in routine maternity care in low-resource settings.Implementation science : IS · 2019Trial
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- The gender gap in relation to happiness and preferences in married couples after childbirth: evidence from a field experiment in rural Ghana.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2017Trial
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- Health seeking behaviour and knowledge on neonatal danger signs among neonatal caregivers in Upper Denkyira East Municipality, Ghana.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Health-system drivers influencing the continuum of care linkages for low-birth-weight infants at the different care levels in Ghana.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
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- Neonatal mortality in the central districts of Ghana: analysis of community and composition factors.BMC public health · 2021Article
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11 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThe United Nations' Millennium Development Goals call for improving maternal and child health status. Their progress, however, has been minimal and uneven across countries. The continuum of care is a key to strengthening maternal, newborn, and child health. In this context, the Japanese government launched the Ghana Ensure Mothers and Babies Regular Access to Care (EMBRACE) Implementation Research Project in collaboration with the Ghanaian government. This study aims to evaluate the implementation process and effects of an intervention to increase the continuum of care for maternal, newborn, and child health status in Ghana. METHODS/
designWe will conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial using an effectiveness-implementation hybrid design in Dodowa, Kintampo, and Navrongo, Ghana. We will provide an intervention package to women living in randomly allocated intervention clusters. The study population is women of reproductive age between the ages of 15 and 49 years. The package includes: 1) use of a new continuum of care card, 2) continuum of care orientation for health workers, 3) 24-hour health facility retention of mothers and newborns after delivery, and 4) postnatal care by home visits. We will measure maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes for both intervention and implementation impacts. The intervention outcomes are continuum of care completion rate, rate of postnatal care within 48 hours, complication rate requiring mothers' and newborns' hospitalizations, and perinatal and neonatal mortality. The implementation outcomes are intervention coverage of the target population, intervention adoption and fidelity, implementation cost, and sustainability. DISCUSSION: In this trial, we will investigate how successful continuum of care can contribute to improving maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes. If successful, this model will then be implemented further in Ghana and other neighboring countries.
trial registrationCurrent Controlled Trials ISRCTN90618993 . Registered on 3 September 2014.
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