Feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of couple antenatal education in Blantyre, Malawi

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Maternal health

• Registration Number: PACTR201710002636253
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Malawi, College of Medicine, Malawi

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2017-09-20
• Last Update Posted: 29 May 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Other
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 485

Inclusion Criteria

¿Women who will be pregnant and are 16 to 24 weeks gestation at booking.
¿Women who have husbands and are living together.
¿Women whose husbands are willing to be involved in antenatal education and are willing to come for antenatal couple education.
¿Women who are willing to respond to the structured questionnaire at the beginning and finalization of the study.
¿Women and husbands who are more than 18 years and are coming from the catchment area of the clinics.

Exclusion Criteria

¿Women whose pregnancy is beyond 24 weeks.
¿Women in polygamous relationship.
¿Women who are single or married but do not stay with the male partner
¿Women and husbands whose age is below 18 years.
¿Women and men who received antenatal education not as husband and wife or those who received less than two couple antenatal education sessions.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of women prepared for birth

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Knowledge score on danger signs during pregnancy, labour and delivery and postpartum period. A woman will be considered knowledgeable if she mentions one obstetric danger sign during each of the period of maternity cycle (pregnancy, labour and delivery and postpartum period).