Family Led Postnatal Care in Ethiopia — FPNC  

Postnatal Complication Clinical Trial

Official title: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Family-led Care Model to Increase Coverage and Quality of Postnatal Care in Ethiopia

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Family-led Postnatal Care-FPNC A midwife involves families and uses a visual checklist to assess and counsel. The midwife then gives families the checklist along with information on how to retrieve a "homecare kit" that has a blood pressure machine, infrared thermometer, and health education booklet. At home, families assess the health of postnatal mothers and newborns for 6 days, and then return the completed checklist and homecare kit to the community location. A community health worker collects the checklists monthly. This study aims to assess the acceptability and feasibility of the FPNC and assess if FPNC increases the proportion of women/newborns who have a postnatal check in the first week after delivery and the proportion who seek care from a health provider when a postnatal danger sign is identified. The study will take approximately 12 months.

Clinical Trial Description

Four health centers in Ada District of Oromia will be included in the study. Prior to FPNC introduction, the investigators will conduct a baseline survey over 8 weeks to measure coverage and content of postnatal checks on Days 3 and 7, as well as care-seeking behavior. The health centers will then implement FPNC. Postnatal women, families, midwives, health extension workers, and homecare kit custodians will have the option to accept or decline participation in the study. At the end of the first- and second-months after FPNC implementation, the investigators will conduct qualitative interviews with mothers, families, midwives, health extension workers and homecare kit custodians. Post intervention survey will take 8 weeks and will be conducted three months after FPNC is introduced. Coverage and content of postnatal checks in the first week will be abstracted weekly from FPNC checklists and care-seeking information will be collected through face-to-face interviews. The investigators will also conduct a quantitative measurement of sustainability of the FPNC intervention six months after the deadline through facility register data abstraction and review of completed checklists. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Postnatal Complication

• NCT number: NCT05563974
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Jhpiego
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 14, 2022
• Completion date: March 30, 2024