Clinical trials: Maternal Health Services
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
Nurse's Role, Infant Development
Nurse Implemented Infant-Mother Attachment Security Program
This study focuses on adapting and evaluating an attachment-based intervention program implemented by nurses in Family Health Centers (FHCs) in Turkey.
- Conditions
- Nurse's Role, Infant Development, Maternal Behavior
- Trial name
- NCT06616090
- Testing
- Nurse Implemented Infant-Mother Attachment Security Program
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sabanci University
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
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
Stunting, Dietary Deficiency
Sustainable Undernutrition Reduction in Ethiopia
The causes of malnutrition are complex and addressing the problem requires integrated action among various sectors. Globally, much attention has been given to nutrition-specific interventions to address the immediate causes of…
- Conditions
- Stunting, Dietary Deficiency, Anemia
- Trial name
- SURE (NCT04694898)
- Testing
- Standard programme, SURE intervention
- Where
- Ethiopia
- Volunteers
- 1,292 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Ghent
Maternal Mortality
Community Based Strategies to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Northern Nigeria
The objective of this cluster randomized controlled trial is to assess the impact of several community-based interventions that address the key factors underlying the high maternal mortality, as well as neonatal mortality and…
- Trial name
- NCT01487707
- Testing
- Voluntary Health Worker (VHW) Program, Safe Birth Kit, Community Folk Media Campaigns
- Where
- Nigeria
- Volunteers
- 7,200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Prenatal Care, Maternal Health Services
Faith Leaders Advocating for Maternal Empowerment (FLAME)
In 2015, the average Ethiopian woman had a 1 in 64 lifetime risk of death due to complications of childbirth and 87,414 newborns died before their 28th day of life.
- Conditions
- Prenatal Care, Maternal Health Services, Perinatal Care
- Trial name
- NCT04039932
- Testing
- FLAME
- Where
- Ethiopia
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
HIV
Measuring the Impact of Integrating Maternal and Newborn HIV Testing With Childhood Immunization Services
This randomized evaluation measured the impact of two levels of support for the integration of infant and postpartum maternal HIV testing with routine immunization services in Southern Zambia on the number of postpartum maternal…
- Trial name
- NCT02479659
- Testing
- HIV testing commodity reinforcement, Policy reinforcement meeting, Opt-out HIV testing for mothers and newborns
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- IDinsight
Maternal and Child Health, Health Service Utilization
Integrated Community Based Health Systems Strengthening in Northern Togo
The general objective of this study is to optimize implementation and assess effectiveness of the integrated facility and community-based health systems strengthening (ICBHSS) model in four Northern Togo districts, using the…
- Trial name
- ICBHSS-Togo (NCT03694366)
- Testing
- ICBHSS model
- Where
- Togo
- Volunteers
- 7,600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Integrate Health
Maternal Death
Maternal Health Service Utilization Among Women of Reproductive Age in Sidama Region, Ethiopia
Introduction: Maternal health service (MHS) utilization helps to decrease maternal morbidity and mortality. However, the existing evidence is not sufficient to design effective and efficient strategies.
- Trial name
- MHSU (NCT05865873)
- Testing
- Health education
- Where
- Ethiopia
- Volunteers
- 1,126 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hawassa University
COVID-19
INTEGrating Ag-RDTs for COVID-19 in MNCH,HIV and TB Services in Cameroon and Kenya
Integration of antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic tests (Ag-RDT) for COVID-19 into services that provide care for vulnerable populations such as pregnant women, children, people with HIV infection, and patients with tuberculosis…
- Trial name
- INTEGRATE (NCT05382130)
- Testing
- Test all
- Where
- 2 sites in Cameroon, Kenya
- Volunteers
- 152,082 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
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
Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV, Pregnancy
Trial to Improve Access to PMTCT Services and Reduce HIV Transmission From Mother to Child
The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability of an enhanced community health worker (CHW) intervention and outreach system to improve antenatal care and PMTCT…
- Trial name
- FS (NCT01932138)
- Testing
- Enhanced CHW intervention, Standard of care
- Where
- Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 190,530 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Maternal Care Patterns
Effectiveness and Acceptability of Availing Skilled Birth Attendance (SBA) Services Through Community Reproductive Health Nurses (CORN) to a Household Level at Rural Communities of Ethiopia; A Cluster Community Trial in Gedeo Zone, SNNPR
Rationale: Every year, 287,00 million women, and 3.1 million neonates continue to die, and the majority of these deaths have been identified as being avoidable.
- Trial name
- CORN (NCT02501252)
- Testing
- trained midwives and nurses working in the community to provide skilled SBA services
- Where
- Ethiopia
- Volunteers
- 2,670 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dilla University
Digital Health, Maternal Health Services
The Effect of Digitally Enabled District (DED 2.0) Ecosystem on the Completeness and Timeliness of Maternal and Neonatal Services in Primary Health Care
DED 2.0 is a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial testing whether an integrated digital health ecosystem (KuApps, a service-monitoring dashboard, AI-assisted OCR for handwritten records, two-way WhatsApp-based health…
- Conditions
- Digital Health, Maternal Health Services, Prenatal Care, Intensive Care, Neonatal
- Trial name
- DED (NCT07842224)
- Testing
- Digitally Enabled District (DED)
- Where
- Indonesia
- Volunteers
- 10,800 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Summit Institute for Development, Indonesia
Postpartum Period
Involving Men in Maternity Care in Burkina Faso
The uptake of postpartum contraception, postpartum care attendance and the practice of exclusive breastfeeding are low in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Trial name
- NCT02309489
- Testing
- Partner involvement
- Where
- Burkina Faso
- Volunteers
- 1,144 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Maternal Health, Family Planning
Quality Improvement Project for Maternal Health and Family Planning Services in Kenya
Evaluation of a quality improvement (QI) collaborative aimed at improving person-centered care (PCC) for maternal health (MH) and family planning (FP) services
- Conditions
- Maternal Health, Family Planning, Delivery
- Trial name
- SPARQ_QIK (NCT04208191)
- Testing
- Quality Improvement Collaborative
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 3,354 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
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-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
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