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ArticleBMJ open2019

Protocol for an economic evaluation alongside a cluster randomised controlled trial: cost-effectiveness of Learning Clubs, a multicomponent intervention to improve women's health and infant's health and development in Vietnam.

Trang Nguyen, Kim Sweeny, Thach Tran, Stanley Luchters, David B Hipgrave, Sarah Hanieh, Tuan Tran, Ha Tran, Beverley-Ann Biggs, Jane Fisher

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Article in BMJ open, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Trang NguyenGlobal and Women's Health, School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Kim SweenyVISES, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6948-809X
Thach TranGlobal and Women's Health, School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4686-8601
Stanley LuchtersCentre for International Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
David B HipgraveUNICEF, New York City, New York, USA.
Sarah HaniehDepartment of Medicine and Victorian Infectious Diseases Service at the Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Tuan TranResearch and Training Centre for Community Development, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
Ha TranResearch and Training Centre for Community Development, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
Beverley-Ann BiggsMedicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Jane FisherGlobal and Women's Health, School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jane.fisher@monash.edu.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionEconomic evaluations of complex interventions in early child development are required to guide policy and programme development, but a few are yet available. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Although significant gains have been made in maternal and child health in resource-constrained environments, this has mainly been concentrated on improving physical health. The Learning Clubs programme addresses both physical and mental child and maternal health. This study is an economic evaluation of a cluster randomised controlled trial of the impact of the Learning Clubs programme in Vietnam. It will be conducted from a societal perspective and aims to identify the cost-effectiveness and the economic and social returns of the intervention. A total of 1008 pregnant women recruited from 84 communes in a rural province in Vietnam will be included in the evaluation. Health and cost data will be gathered at three stages of the trial and used to calculate incremental cost-effectiveness ratios per percentage point improvement of infant's development, infant's health and maternal common mental disorders expressed in quality-adjusted life years gained. The return on investment will be calculated based on improvements in productivity, the results being expressed as benefit-cost ratios. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The trial was approved by Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (Certificate Number 2016-0683), Australia, and approval was extended to include the economic evaluation (Amendment Review Number 2018-0683-23806); and the Institutional Review Board of the Hanoi School of Public Health (Certificate Number 017-377IDD- YTCC), Vietnam. Results will be disseminated through academic journals and conference presentations. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ACTRN12617000442303.

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Child DevelopmentInfant HealthLearningMaternal HealthSelf-Help GroupsCost-Benefit AnalysisFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMother-Child RelationsMothersPregnancyRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicRural PopulationSocial Supportcost-effectiveness analysiscost – utility analysisearly childhood developmentinfant’s developmentinfant’s healthlearning clubs interventionperinatal common mental disordersreturn on investmentVietnam

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PMCPMC6924726

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