The effect of giving feedback on maternal and newborn health services to community leaders and health providers in Uttar Pradesh, India

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Maternal and newborn health services; Pregnancy and Childbirth

• Registration Number: ISRCTN11070792
• Lead Sponsor: ondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK)

Brief Summary

2019 results in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31303297 (added 16/07/2019)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2015-09-24
• Study Completion: 2017-06-30
• Last Update Posted: 26 August 2019

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 3133

Inclusion Criteria

Participants for the intervention will differ depending on whether they are allocated to the public or private reporting variant of the intervention.

Participants in study arms receiving private performance feedback will be providers of maternal, newborn and child health services operating within the cluster. Potential participants will be identified from a health provider census. Informed written consent will be obtained from providers, and project staff will schedule a meeting time for individual feedback at a time convenient for the provider.

Participants in the clusters receiving public feedback will be community members from the cluster. There will be up to two feedback sessions per cluster. Participants will be community leaders and persons with influence in the area of maternal and newborn health. Targeted participants include: PRI (rural) and ward members (urban), teachers, ASHA, AWW, health providers and religious leaders. Written consent will be obtained from the Pradhan of the Gram Panchayat or, if unavailable, an alternative community representative. We intend to leverage the cluster’s Gram Panchayat members to help identify relevant community stakeholders, including women.

Exclusion Criteria

In the clusters with private feedback:
1. Health providers that do not currently provide maternal or newborn health services
2. Private rural health providers beyond the target of three per cluster

In the clusters with public feedback:
1. People who do not have influence in the cluster over the uptake or provision of maternal and newborn health services

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The proportion of women that received at least four antenatal care visits. The feedback intervention will take place October 2015 and September 2016. Outcomes will be measured at baseline (February 2015), then May 2016 (month 15), and then June 2017 (month 28). We will pool data from the second and third round of data collection when we analyse the impact of the intervention.