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The effectiveness of introducing Group Prenatal Care (GPC) in selected health facilities in a district of Bangladesh: study protocol
BACKGROUND: Despite high rates of antenatal care and relatively good access to health facilities, maternal and neonatal mortality remain high in Bangladesh. There is an immediate need for implementation of evidence-based, cost-effective interventions to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5282623/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28143611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1227-6 |
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author | Sultana, Marufa Mahumud, Rashidul Alam Ali, Nausad Ahmed, Sayem Islam, Ziaul Khan, Jahangir A. M. Sarker, Abdur Razzaque |
author_facet | Sultana, Marufa Mahumud, Rashidul Alam Ali, Nausad Ahmed, Sayem Islam, Ziaul Khan, Jahangir A. M. Sarker, Abdur Razzaque |
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description | BACKGROUND: Despite high rates of antenatal care and relatively good access to health facilities, maternal and neonatal mortality remain high in Bangladesh. There is an immediate need for implementation of evidence-based, cost-effective interventions to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes. The aim of the study is to assess the effect of the intervention namely Group Prenatal Care (GPC) on utilization of standard number of antenatal care, post natal care including skilled birth attendance and institutional deliveries instead of usual care. METHODS: The study is quasi-experimental in design. We aim to recruit 576 pregnant women (288 interventions and 288 comparisons) less than 20 weeks of gestational age. The intervention will be delivered over around 6 months. The outcome measure is the difference in maternal service coverage including ANC and PNC coverage, skilled birth attendance and institutional deliveries between the intervention and comparison group. DISCUSSION: Findings from the research will contribute to improve maternal and newborn outcome in our existing health system. Findings of the research can be used for planning a new strategy and improving the health outcome for Bangladeshi women. Finally addressing the maternal health goal, this study is able to contribute to strengthening health system. |
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spelling | pubmed-52826232017-02-03 The effectiveness of introducing Group Prenatal Care (GPC) in selected health facilities in a district of Bangladesh: study protocol Sultana, Marufa Mahumud, Rashidul Alam Ali, Nausad Ahmed, Sayem Islam, Ziaul Khan, Jahangir A. M. Sarker, Abdur Razzaque BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Despite high rates of antenatal care and relatively good access to health facilities, maternal and neonatal mortality remain high in Bangladesh. There is an immediate need for implementation of evidence-based, cost-effective interventions to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes. The aim of the study is to assess the effect of the intervention namely Group Prenatal Care (GPC) on utilization of standard number of antenatal care, post natal care including skilled birth attendance and institutional deliveries instead of usual care. METHODS: The study is quasi-experimental in design. We aim to recruit 576 pregnant women (288 interventions and 288 comparisons) less than 20 weeks of gestational age. The intervention will be delivered over around 6 months. The outcome measure is the difference in maternal service coverage including ANC and PNC coverage, skilled birth attendance and institutional deliveries between the intervention and comparison group. DISCUSSION: Findings from the research will contribute to improve maternal and newborn outcome in our existing health system. Findings of the research can be used for planning a new strategy and improving the health outcome for Bangladeshi women. Finally addressing the maternal health goal, this study is able to contribute to strengthening health system. BioMed Central 2017-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5282623/ /pubmed/28143611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1227-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Sultana, Marufa Mahumud, Rashidul Alam Ali, Nausad Ahmed, Sayem Islam, Ziaul Khan, Jahangir A. M. Sarker, Abdur Razzaque The effectiveness of introducing Group Prenatal Care (GPC) in selected health facilities in a district of Bangladesh: study protocol |
title | The effectiveness of introducing Group Prenatal Care (GPC) in selected health facilities in a district of Bangladesh: study protocol |
title_full | The effectiveness of introducing Group Prenatal Care (GPC) in selected health facilities in a district of Bangladesh: study protocol |
title_fullStr | The effectiveness of introducing Group Prenatal Care (GPC) in selected health facilities in a district of Bangladesh: study protocol |
title_full_unstemmed | The effectiveness of introducing Group Prenatal Care (GPC) in selected health facilities in a district of Bangladesh: study protocol |
title_short | The effectiveness of introducing Group Prenatal Care (GPC) in selected health facilities in a district of Bangladesh: study protocol |
title_sort | effectiveness of introducing group prenatal care (gpc) in selected health facilities in a district of bangladesh: study protocol |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5282623/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28143611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1227-6 |
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