Title |
Implementation of evidence-based antenatal care in Mozambique: a cluster randomized controlled trial: study protocol
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, May 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-14-228 |
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Authors |
Leonardo Chavane, Mario Merialdi, Ana Pilar Betrán, Jennifer Requejo-Harris, Eduardo Bergel, Alicia Aleman, Mercedes Colomar, Maria Luisa Cafferata, Alicia Carbonell, Beatrice Crahay, Therese Delvaux, Diederike Geelhoed, Metin Gülmezoglu, Celsa Regina Malapende, Armando Melo, My Huong Nguyen, Nafissa Bique Osman, Mariana Widmer, Marleen Temmerman, Fernando Althabe |
Abstract |
Antenatal care (ANC) reduces maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality directly through the detection and treatment of pregnancy-related illnesses, and indirectly through the detection of women at increased risk of delivery complications. The potential benefits of quality antenatal care services are most significant in low-resource countries where morbidity and mortality levels among women of reproductive age and neonates are higher.WHO developed an ANC model that recommended the delivery of services scientifically proven to improve maternal, perinatal and neonatal outcomes. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of an intervention designed to increase the use of the package of evidence-based services included in the WHO ANC model in Mozambique. The primary hypothesis is that the intervention will increase the use of evidence-based practices during ANC visits in comparison to the standard dissemination channels currently used in the country. |
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