Health management committee strengthening and community mobilisation through women's groups to improve trained health worker attendance at birth in rural Nepal: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
Adolescent
Adult
Child
Cluster Analysis
Community Health Workers
/ education
Community Participation
/ methods
Delivery, Obstetric
/ education
Developing Countries
Female
Health Services Accessibility
/ statistics & numerical data
Humans
Maternal Health Services
Middle Aged
Nepal
Pregnancy
Prospective Studies
Rural Population
Women
Young Adult
Health systems
Maternal
Newborn
Participation
Public accountability
South Asia
Journal
BMC pregnancy and childbirth
ISSN: 1471-2393
Titre abrégé: BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
Pays: England
ID NLM: 100967799
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 May 2020
06 May 2020
Historique:
received:
17
09
2018
accepted:
21
04
2020
entrez:
8
5
2020
pubmed:
8
5
2020
medline:
26
1
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Engaging citizens and communities to make services accountable is vital to achieving health development goals. Community participation in health management committees can increase public accountability of health services. We conducted a cluster randomised controlled trial to test the impact of strengthened health management committees (HMCs) and community mobilisation through women's groups on institutional deliveries and deliveries by trained health workers in rural Nepal. The study was conducted in all Village Development Committee clusters in the hills district of Makwanpur (population of 420,500). In 21 intervention clusters, we conducted three-day workshops with HMCs to improve their capacity for planning and action and supported female community health volunteers to run women's groups. These groups met once a month and mobilised communities to address barriers to institutional delivery through participatory learning and action cycles. We compared this intervention with 22 control clusters. Prospective surveillance from October 2010 to the end of September 2012 captured complete data on 13,721 deliveries in intervention and control areas. Analysis was by intention to treat. The women's group intervention was implemented as intended, but we were unable to support HMCs as planned because many did not meet regularly. The activities of community based organisations were systematically targeted at control clusters, which meant that there were no true 'control' clusters. 39% (5403) of deliveries were in health institutions and trained health workers attended most of them. There were no differences between trial arms in institutional delivery uptake (1.45, 0.76-2.78) or attendance by trained health workers (OR 1.43, 95% CI 0.74-2.74). The absence of a true counterfactual and inadequate coverage of the HMC strengthening intervention impedes our ability to draw conclusions. Further research is needed to test the effectiveness of strengthening public accountability mechanisms on increased utilisation of services at delivery. Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN99834806. Date of registration:28/09/10.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Engaging citizens and communities to make services accountable is vital to achieving health development goals. Community participation in health management committees can increase public accountability of health services. We conducted a cluster randomised controlled trial to test the impact of strengthened health management committees (HMCs) and community mobilisation through women's groups on institutional deliveries and deliveries by trained health workers in rural Nepal.
METHODS
METHODS
The study was conducted in all Village Development Committee clusters in the hills district of Makwanpur (population of 420,500). In 21 intervention clusters, we conducted three-day workshops with HMCs to improve their capacity for planning and action and supported female community health volunteers to run women's groups. These groups met once a month and mobilised communities to address barriers to institutional delivery through participatory learning and action cycles. We compared this intervention with 22 control clusters. Prospective surveillance from October 2010 to the end of September 2012 captured complete data on 13,721 deliveries in intervention and control areas. Analysis was by intention to treat.
RESULTS
RESULTS
The women's group intervention was implemented as intended, but we were unable to support HMCs as planned because many did not meet regularly. The activities of community based organisations were systematically targeted at control clusters, which meant that there were no true 'control' clusters. 39% (5403) of deliveries were in health institutions and trained health workers attended most of them. There were no differences between trial arms in institutional delivery uptake (1.45, 0.76-2.78) or attendance by trained health workers (OR 1.43, 95% CI 0.74-2.74).
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
The absence of a true counterfactual and inadequate coverage of the HMC strengthening intervention impedes our ability to draw conclusions. Further research is needed to test the effectiveness of strengthening public accountability mechanisms on increased utilisation of services at delivery.
TRIAL REGISTRATION
BACKGROUND
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN99834806. Date of registration:28/09/10.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32375684
doi: 10.1186/s12884-020-02960-6
pii: 10.1186/s12884-020-02960-6
pmc: PMC7201973
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Randomized Controlled Trial
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
268Subventions
Organisme : Wellcome Trust
ID : 085417MA/Z/08/Z
Pays : United Kingdom
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