Clinical trials: Maternal Health Service
Feasibility, Acceptability of Health Care
Introduction of Preconception Care Through Public Health System for Improving MNCH&FP
The goal of this study is to test the feasibility and acceptability of introducing preconception care into the public health system targeting newlywed couples in increasing the uptake of maternal, neonatal health, and family…
- Trial name
- MNCH&FP (NCT06175520)
- Testing
- Preconception care (PCC)
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 2,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Maternal Death Affecting Fetus or Newborn, Delivery Complication
Impact of a Smartphone Intervention on Tanzanian Women's Childbirth Location
This study investigates whether training Community Health Workers (CHW) to use a smartphone-based prenatal counseling application as a "job aid" instead of the existing paper based standard is associated with increased women's…
- Conditions
- Maternal Death Affecting Fetus or Newborn, Delivery Complication, Obstetric Complication, Birth Injuries
- Trial name
- SUSTAIN1 (NCT03161184)
- Testing
- SUSTAIN Smartphone training of CHW (SP+), SUSTAIN Paperbased training of CHW (SOC)
- Volunteers
- 572 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Toronto
Emergency Maternity Care, Health Inequalities in Maternity Care Access
Disparities In Access to the Northwest Ambulance Service During Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum Period and Its Association With Neonatal and Maternal Outcomes
This study is the first in the United Kingdom (UK) to look at how women and families from different backgrounds use ambulance services during the 'perinatal period' - through pregnancy, birth, and shortly after having a baby.
- Conditions
- Emergency Maternity Care, Health Inequalities in Maternity Care Access, Disparities in Access to Maternity Care, Deprivation
- Trial name
- DIAAS (NCT07049263)
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 18,000 people
- Sponsor
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Maternal-Child Health Services, Health Service Utilization
Integrated Community Based Health Systems Strengthening Preliminary Study in Kozah Togo
This preliminary study aims to inform the design and delivery of the integrated facility and community-based health systems strengthening (ICBHSS) model in four Kozah District health facilities over a period of 48 months.
- Trial name
- ICBHSS-Kozah (NCT03773913)
- Testing
- ICBHSS model
- Where
- Togo
- Volunteers
- 1,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Integrate Health
Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Mental Disorder
Integrated Mental Health Care for Pregnant Women With HIV in Kenya: The Tunawiri Study
This study seeks to improve mental health, pregnancy, and HIV outcomes among pregnant and postpartum women living with HIV with common mental health disorders in Kenya.
- Trial name
- NCT06117163
- Testing
- Collaborative Care Model
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 900 people
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Randomized Controlled Trial
Culturally Customised Maternal Nutrition Education for Health Professionals
Background: Inadequate dietary consumption is a primary risk factor contributing to undernutrition during pregnancy and adversely affect birth outcomes.
- Trial name
- NCT07070206
- Testing
- The health professionals in the capacity building arm will receive in-service training about culturally customized maternal nutrition education.
- Where
- Ethiopia
- Volunteers
- 174 people
- Sponsor
- Bahir Dar University
Maternal Health Services, Outcome Assessment
Long Term Effects Of a Maternal Cash Transfer Experiment
This is a follow-on study to a cluster randomized trial of maternal conditional incentives conducted in Nigeria. This study found that cash transfers, conditional on women obtaining facility-based prenatal, delivery, and…
- Trial name
- NCT05709457
- Testing
- Cash transfer in prior study
- Where
- Nigeria
- Volunteers
- 18,131 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- RAND
Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Health Disparities
The Maternal Health Multilevel Intervention for Racial Equity (MIRACLE) Project
This community-partnered study will scale a community, provider, and system-level implementation intervention to reduce African American maternal morbidity and mortality disparities in two Michigan counties (Genesee and Kent).
- Trial name
- MIRACLE (NCT05386316)
- Testing
- Multilevel intervention for racial disparities in severe maternal morbidity and mortality, Standard Enhanced Prenatal Care (EPC) services
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 540,000 people
- Sponsor
- Michigan State University
Hysterectomy (MeSH nr: E04.950.300.399)
Transforming Global Surgery Capacity and Capability Through Affordable Virtual Reality
The goal of this randomized controlled trial was to evaluate whether Deliberate Virtual Reality (VR) training can improve surgical skills, knowledge, and confidence in performing postpartum hysterectomy among junior-level Zambian…
- Trial name
- NCT07403526
- Testing
- Deliberate Virtual Reality (VR) Training, Standard Clinical Training
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 33 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Southern Methodist University
Pregnancy, Maternal Health
Wired Mothers - Use of Mobile Phones to Improve Maternal and Neonatal Health in Zanzibar
Reducing maternal and newborn mortality remains a global challenge. Because obstetric complications cannot be predicted, skilled attendance at the time of delivery and access to emergency obstetric care remain the most effective…
- Conditions
- Pregnancy, Maternal Health, Newborn Death, Health Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT01821222
- Testing
- Wired mothers
- Where
- Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 2,550 people
- Sponsor
- University of Copenhagen
HIV
Texting to Improve Testing (TextIT):
Early accurate diagnosis is one of the first crucial steps in care for infants born to HIV-infected mothers. Early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) relies upon early diagnosis and results in significant reductions in…
- Trial name
- TextIT (NCT02350140)
- Testing
- Text messaging from beginning, Text messaging after 6 months of control
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 2,508 people
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Maternal Health, Neonatal Health
Mobile Phone Messaging to Improve Women's and Children's Health (Mobile WACh) in Kenya
With the increased prevalence of cellular phones, mobile technology provides an important tool to reach underserved populations in low to middle income countries.
- Conditions
- Maternal Health, Neonatal Health, Family Planning
- Trial name
- Mobile WACh (NCT01894126)
- Testing
- Two-way SMS Dialogue, One-way SMS Messaging
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Maternal Behavior
Evaluation of Prototype Solutions for Optimizing Maternal Health Behaviors
This study is a three-year implementation research project that aims to develop and test the effectiveness and acceptability of interventions to promote three outcomes: institutional delivery, antenatal care, and iron-folic acid…
- Trial name
- NCT05907720
- Testing
- Human-centered design prototype solutions for vulnerable pregnant women
- Where
- Ethiopia
- Volunteers
- 1,468 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Retention
Lafiyan Jikin Mata "Excellent Health for Mothers"
This study aims to address the research question: Will continuous quality improvement, using a Break Through Series approach, increase uptake of PMTCT services and retention-in-care of HIV-infected pregnant women and mothers at…
- Trial name
- LJM (NCT02214875)
- Testing
- CQI/BTS, Control
- Where
- Nigeria
- Volunteers
- 491 people
- Sponsor
- Centre for Integrated Health Programs, Nigeria
Contraception, Contraception Behavior
SihatMand Khandaan Healthy Families for Pakistan
The SMK project's primary goal is to improve the status of SRH of women and adolescents within those targeted areas which feature inadequate progress on existing SRH indicators.
- Conditions
- Contraception, Contraception Behavior, Reproductive Behavior, Maternal Behavior
- Trial name
- SMK (NCT06125470)
- Testing
- Uptake of quality Reproductive health and Family planning products, information and Services, Capacity building of facility based and community based healthcare providers (public and private sector) on FP /SRH, Adolescent Engagement
- Where
- 2 sites in Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 236,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Aga Khan University
Pregnancy, Prenatal Care
Home Visits in Pregnancy and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors
Abstract Background: Prenatal home visits allow early risk detection and comprehensive care in the pregnant woman's own environment.
- Conditions
- Pregnancy, Prenatal Care, Home Visits
- Trial name
- NCT07061795
- Testing
- healthy living behaviors
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- serpil toker
Sepsis, Pneumonia
Improved Accessibility of EmONC Services for Maternal and Newborn Health: a Community Based Project
The purpose of this study is to determine whether an integrated EmONC package (community mobilization, training of community-based health care providers and a maternal and neonatal health pack) reduce perinatal and neonatal…
- Conditions
- Sepsis, Pneumonia, Omphalitis, Birth Asphyxia
- Trial name
- EmONC (NCT01751945)
- Testing
- EmONC package
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 12,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Aga Khan University
Pregnancy, Infant Development
Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation
MIHOPE is a multi-state study of home visiting programs authorized under the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program.
- Trial name
- MIHOPE (NCT02069782)
- Testing
- Home visiting
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 4,232 people
- Sponsor
- MDRC
Pregnancy
Cluster-randomized Trial Measuring Integration of Professional Midwives and Obstetric Nurses in Rural Clinics in Mexico
Rates and causes of maternal mortality in Mexico have dropped only slightly; thus, reaching the internationally established Millennium Development Milestones (MDM) is still a distant goal.
- Trial name
- NCT01477541
- Testing
- PM/ON integration
- Volunteers
- 27 people
- Sponsor
- Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Mexico
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
A Multidisciplinary "Integrated Management Team to Improve Maternal-Child Outcomes (IMPROVE)" Intervention to Improve Maternal and Child Outcomes in Lesotho
This study aims to improve maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes by implementing and evaluating a multidisciplinary "Integrated Management Team to Improve Maternal-Child Outcomes (IMPROVE)" intervention to increase MCH…
- Trial name
- IMPROVE (NCT04598958)
- Testing
- IMPROVE
- Volunteers
- 1,004 people
- Sponsor
- Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation