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The study aims to assess the acceptability; feasibility; implementation cost; and penetration of the birth companion intervention introduced at health facilities. It is a multi-country study (Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria) with a two parallel arm cluster randomized controlled trial design. The study duration will approximately be 16 months.


Clinical Trial Description

The overall purpose of this study is to investigate how a birth companion (BC) intervention can be implemented to increase the proportion of women who are accompanied by a BC during labor, childbirth, and postpartum in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria. After baseline data collection, facilities will be randomized in a 3:1 ratio; for every three facilities that receive the BC intervention, one facility will serve as a control facility. After randomization, over the course of two months, intervention facilities will start preparing to introduce the BC intervention to facilitate presence of BC during labor and delivery, while the control facilities will continue to provide the local standard of routine care. The intervention will have the following components: 1) Orient facilities and providers to benefits of BC; 2) Develop/update formal standard operating procedures (SOP) for implementing BC and develop plans to implement SOP; 3) Assess data required for implementation and an audit and feedback cycle for tracking coverage; 4) Assess and carry out modest structural changes in facilities to facilitate BC; 5) Use human centered design to develop materials/resources and a means to distinguish/recognize the BC, taking into account common barriers and misconceptions; 6) Prepare providers to integrate BC into care team; 7) Orient antenatal care (ANC) clients to BC rationale and selection; 8) Prepare BCs to support women; 9) Iterate model and track intervention/policies. Investigators will use a mixed methods approach to address the implementation research questions with exit interviews, health facility register data extraction, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. Investigators will collect quarterly quantitative and qualitative data over the course of one week each, for a total of five data collection periods including baseline. ;


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NCT number NCT05565196
Study type Interventional
Source Jhpiego
Contact Della Berhanu, PhD
Phone +251026783038
Email della.berhanu@jhpiego.org
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date October 10, 2022
Completion date January 15, 2025

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