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| Name | Class |
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| International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh | OTHER |
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The study aims to determine the effect of the eRegistration tracking system and mHealth counseling on institutional deliveries to pregnant mothers in the hazard-prone areas of Southern Bangladesh.
The study will be an open-label two-arm non-randomized controlled cluster trial for six months period. Chandpur Sadar, Kachua, and Faridganj sub-districts will be the intervention arm and Bhola Sadar, Charfesson, and Lalmohan sub-districts of the Bhola district will be the control arm. ased system. 28 - 36 weeks of pregnant women will be enrolled, given the intervention, and followed-up until their delivery.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Intervention | Experimental | The intervention arm will be registered in th e-Register database and recieve voice calls and text messages |
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| Control | No Intervention | The control group will be enrolled and followed until their delivery. They will not get the intervention. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| e-Registration and mHealth | Other | Registration to the electronic database Counseling through voice calls for facility delivery Text messages to promote facility delivery |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Rate of Institutional delivery | Normal vaginal deliveries, cesarean sections and assisted vaginal deliveries (forceps and vacuum deliveries) conducted at any healthcare facility by medically trained provider/ skilled birth attendant situated at the study sites will be considered as institutional delivery. Numerator: Number of institutional deliveries Denominator: Total deliveries in the study sites (A sum of normal vaginal deliveries, cesarean sections and assisted vaginal deliveries) | 22 weeks |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Proportion of different mode of deliveries | Numerator: Proportion of normal vaginal deliveries, Proportion of cesarean sections, Proportion of forceps and vacuum deliveries Denominator: Total deliveries in the study sites. | 22 weeks |
| Proportion of different birth outcomes |
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Pregnant mothers registered in the FWA register, 19 - 45 years, 28 - 36 weeks pregnant, have access to a mobile phone
We will include pregnant mothers for our study. Participant eligibility is based on thier pregnancy status and self-representation of gender identity.
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Ahmed Hossain, Ph.D, MSc | Contact | +8801729378236 | ahmed.hossain@northsouth.edu |
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| Ahmed Hossain, Ph.D, MSc | North South University | Study Chair |
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| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 37756321 | Derived | Chowdhury AT, Jabeen S, Sultana ZZ, Rahman AE, Arifeen SE, Hossain A. Evaluating the impact of e-registration and mHealth on institutional delivery in hazard-prone areas of Bangladesh: A protocol for a non-randomized controlled cluster trial. PLoS One. 2023 Sep 27;18(9):e0271364. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271364. eCollection 2023. |
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We do not plan to make individual participant data available to other researchers.
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| ID | Term |
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| D017216 | Telemedicine |
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| D003695 | Delivery of Health Care |
| D010346 | Patient Care Management |
| D006298 | Health Services Administration |
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The pregnant mothers will be registered in the electronic database, they will be called by the midwives to motivate them for facility delivery and they will receive a text message regarding this.
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Numerator: Proportion of alive babies, Proportion of stillbirths Denominator: Total live births in the study sites. |
| 22 weeks |