Trial reportPloS one2016
Effect of Village Health Team Home Visits and Mobile Phone Consultations on Maternal and Newborn Care Practices in Masindi and Kiryandongo, Uganda: A Community-Intervention Trial.
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A Community Trial to Measure the Effect of Individual Prenatal Education With Mobile Phone Consultations Offered to Pregnant Women in Masindi and Kiryandongo, Western Uganda
Who cites it
36 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 87 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluating the Adoption of mHealth Technologies by Community Health Workers to Improve the Use of Maternal Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Pooled it
- Impact of mHealth interventions on maternal, newborn, and child health from conception to 24 months postpartum in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
- The effect of mHealth on childhood vaccination in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Assessing the effect of mHealth on child feeding practice in African countries: systematic and meta-analysis.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Community Health Worker Impact on Knowledge, Antenatal Care, And Birth Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Maternal and child health journal · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions to improve adherence to antenatal and postnatal care regimens among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Pooled it
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- mHealth communication to strengthen postnatal care in rural areas: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2019Pooled 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
- Umbilical cord-care practices in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2017Pooled it
- A community-based dynamic choice model for HIV prevention improves PrEP and PEP coverage in rural Uganda and Kenya: a cluster randomized trial.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2023Trial
- Feasibility, acceptability and lessons learned from an infant feeding intervention trial among women living with HIV in western Kenya.BMC public health · 2023Trial
- An mHealth-based social support program to improve antenatal care engagement and facility-based births in Uganda: A type I hybrid effectiveness-implementation clinical trial.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Dyadic Care Interventions and Outcomes for Mothers and Their Infants: A Scoping Review.Pediatrics · 2025Article
- Integration of a Patient-Centered mHealth Intervention (Support-Moms) Into Routine Antenatal Care to Improve Maternal Health Among Pregnant Women in Southwestern Uganda: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Examining the Impact of Integrated Obstetric Simulation Training on the Quality of Antenatal Care in Northern Ghana.Maternal and child health journal · 2025Article
- Scoping review of interventions to improve continuity of postdischarge care for newborns in LMICs.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- Clinicodemographic Profile and Clinical Outcome of Children Presenting to Telemedicine Center at Institute of National Importance of India: A Prospective Observational Study.International journal of telemedicine and applications · 2024Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
introductionThe World Health Organisation recommends home visits conducted by Community Health Workers (in Uganda known as Village Health Teams--VHTs) in order to improve maternal and newborn health. This study measured the effect of home visits combined with mobile phone consultations on maternal and newborn care practices.
methodIn a community intervention trial design 16 health centres in Masindi and Kiryandongo districts, Uganda were randomly and equally allocated to one of two arms: control and intervention arms. Eight control health centres received the usual maternal and newborn educational messages offered by professional health workers and eight intervention health centres that received an intervention package for maternal care and essential newborn care practices. In the intervention arm VHTs made two prenatal and one postnatal home visit to households. VHTs were provided with mobile phones to enable them make regular telephone consultations with health workers at the health centre serving the catchment area. The primary outcome was health facility delivery. Other outcomes included antenatal attendances, birth preparedness, cord and thermal care and breastfeeding practices. Analysis was by intention-to-treat.
resultsA total of 1385 pregnant women were analysed: 758 and 627 in the control and intervention arms respectively. Significant post-intervention differences were: delivery place [adjusted Odds Ratio aOR: 17.94(95%CI: 6.26-51.37); p<0.001], cord care [aOR: 3.05(95%CI: 1.81-5.12); p<0.001] thermal care [aOR: 7.58(95%CI: 2.52-22.82); p<0.001], and timely care-seeking for newborn illness [aOR: 4.93(95%CI: 1.59-15.31); p = 0.006].
conclusionVHTs can have an effect in promoting proper cord and thermal care for the newborn and improve timely care-seeking for health facility delivery and newborn illness, because they could answer questions and refer patients correctly. However, VHTs should be supported by professional health workers through the use of mobile phones.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT02084680.
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