Increase in institutional delivery and child immunisation coverage through an appreciative inquiry-based community dialogue intervention in Afghanistan.

Shafiqullah Hemat, Sharifullah Alemi, Sadia Ahmady, Keiko Nakamura

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Article in Public health in practice (Oxford, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Shafiqullah HematDepartment of Global Health Entrepreneurship, Division of Public Health, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan.

Sharifullah AlemiDepartment of Global Health Entrepreneurship, Division of Public Health, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan.

Sadia AhmadyMinistry of Public Health, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Keiko NakamuraDepartment of Global Health Entrepreneurship, Division of Public Health, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan.

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Objective: A community dialogue intervention with an appreciative inquiry approach was undertaken to improve institutional delivery and child immunisation coverage in a hard-to-reach province, namely, Kandahar, in Afghanistan. This study aimed to evaluate the intervention's effectiveness in promoting institutional delivery and child immunisation. Study design: A pre-post intervention evaluation study. Methods: An intervention and a non-intervention district were selected in Kandahar. Children aged under 5 years participated in surveys at baseline (October 2018) and follow-up (Post-intervention: November 2019). We analysed age, sex, place of birth, and confirmed immunisation coverage data concerning 1046 and 927 children pre- and post-interventions, respectively. Changes in institutional delivery and confirmed immunisation status were evaluated using net intervention effect and difference-in-difference (DID) analysis. Results: Institutional delivery rates increased from 66.3% to 83.6% ( Conclusions: The appreciative inquiry-based community dialogue intervention considerably increased institutional delivery and child immunisation coverage, even in a hard-to-reach province in Afghanistan.

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AdvocacyAppreciative inquiryChild immunisationCommunity dialogueHuman-centred designInstitutional delivery

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PMID37859869

DOI10.1016/j.puhip.2023.100436

PMCPMC10582473

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