Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: A Community Trial to Measure the Effect of Individual Prenatal Education With Mobile Phone Consultations Offered to Pregnant Women in Masindi and Kiryandongo, Western Uganda
Brief Summary: Introduction There is compelling evidence for scheduled home visits to improve newborn health. There is also a growing wealth of evidence to support the use of mobile phones as a public health tool in low and middle-income countries. UNICEF and WHO have recommended implementation of home visits for newborn care improvement. In sub Saharan Africa the evidence for a combined scheduled home visit and mobile phone technology to improve neonatal health is lacking. In this study the investigators aim to determine the effect of scheduled home visits by Community Health Workers (hereafter referred to as Village Health Teams-VHTs) combined with mobile phone consultations on newborn care in Masindi, Uganda.

Methods This is a community intervention trial to be conducted in Masindi and Kiryandongo in Uganda from May 2013 to June 2014. A mixed method data collection technique will be used. Our overarching hypothesis is that survival of the newborn requires a continuum of care from pregnancy to the newborn period. Eight health centres each will be randomly allocated to the intervention arm and a control arm. Five villages will be randomly selected from each of the catchment areas of the intervention health centres and one VHT purposively selected from each of the villages. Intervention arm will receive VHTs equipped with mobile phones making four scheduled home visits to women while the control arm will receive the standard care for prenatal and immediate newborn education. VHTs will discuss care for the pregnancy, danger signs in pregnancy, birth preparation, acquiring needed items for delivery and recommended newborn care practices. VHTs can also make instant telephone consultations with the midwife for a second opinion. A closed caller group for the mobile telephone consultation is already negotiated with Mobile Telephone Network (MTN) a mobile phone service provider to allow lower tariff rates. Our primary outcome variables of interest are hygienic cord care (specifically application of substances on the cord), thermal care (specifically delayed bathing of the baby soon after birth), initiation of breastfeeding within one hour and avoiding pre-lacteal feeds. Secondary outcomes like completed four antenatal visits, institutionalized delivery were also assessed.


Options:
A: Arm Label: EmONC package; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: EmONC package | Arm Label: Standard of care; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: EmONC package; Assigned to Arm(s): EmONC package
B: Arm Label: Control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: Community Health Workers; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: community health workers | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: community health workers; Assigned to Arm(s): Community Health Workers
C: Arm Label: Newhints; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Home visits | Arm Label: Control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Home visits; Assigned to Arm(s): Newhints
D: Arm Label: Experimental; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Training HC/VHSG, Health Education, and Supportive Supervision | Arm Label: No Intervention; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Training HC/VHSG, Health Education, and Supportive Supervision; Assigned to Arm(s): Experimental

Answer: B