Strengthening Maternal Neonatal and Child Health Services in a Rural District of Pakistan

Anemia Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Strengthening Maternal Neonatal and Child Health Services in a Rural District of Pakistan

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02797353
• Other study ID #: 2787-Ped-ERC-13
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2013
• Est. completion date: August 2016

Study information

• Verified date: June 2020
• Source: Aga Khan University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The Maternal Neonatal and Child health indicators in District Dadu of Pakistan portrays a dismal pictures and after the floods of 2010-2011 the health infrastructure of this district was badly affected. Aga Khan University Pakistan is intending to implement a service delivery project for the improvement of Maternal Neonatal and Child health situation through evidence based MNCH interventions.

Description:

The Aga Khan University is implementing together with its local partners a MNCH project in five Union Councils (UC) in Dadu District in Sindh Province. The project will scale up the already existing health services for MNCH in the district referral hospital and the five Basic Health Units (BHUs), one in each UC. Institutional based services as well as their scope for outreach to pregnant women, mothers and children in the communities with the aim to promote safe deliveries as per WHO guidelines and Government policy will be enhanced. In order to deliver quality services, the facilities will be renovated and equipped and the capacity of the existing staff will be strengthened through different training courses in MNCH. In addition professionally trained Lady Health Visitors will be introduced in the BHUs, who will conduct all maternal services including deliveries in the BHU and the communities. The health staff is furthermore responsible to establish and facilitate community support groups and raise communal awareness for the importance of mother and child health care as well as safe deliveries with skilled attendants. Operational research is an integral part of this pilot project. The research validates the progress and improvement of maternal and child health indicators. The results will be used to lobby the scale up of MNCH interventions with the Ministry of Health in Pakistan.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 15000
• Est. completion date: August 2016
• Est. primary completion date: June 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A to 49 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Be a resident of target areas and consent to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Do not fulfill the residence and consent criteria

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anemia
• Antepartum Hemorrhage
• Asphyxia
• Birth Asphyxia
• Diarrhea
• Diarrhoea
• Eclampsia
• Hemorrhage
• Neonatal Sepsis
• Pneumonia
• Postpartum Hemorrhage

Intervention

Other:
• Maternal Neonatal and Child Health Interventions
Antenatal care, postnatal care, skilled birth attendance, recognition and referral of complicated cases, immunization

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Aga Khan University	The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Maternal, Neonatal and infant mortality	A 20% reduction in mortality rates is expected	24 months
Secondary	Antenatal Care	A 40% Increase in Antenatal care is expected	12 months
Secondary	Skilled Birth attendance	A 40% increase in Skilled Birth attendance is expected	12 months
Secondary	Essential Neonatal Care	A 40% increase in uptake of Essential Neonatal Care	24 months
Secondary	Child hood Immunization Rates	A 30% increase in child hood immunization rates	24 months