Clinical trial NCT06451653: Men in Maternity Health (MiM) in Myanmar
Official title: Effectiveness of Men in Maternity Health (MiM) Intervention on Male Involvement in Maternal Health Care to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes in Naypyitaw, Myanmar
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Maternal Health Care
Myanmar
Men in Maternity Health
Male Partner
Institutional Delivery
Lead sponsor: Chulalongkorn University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Myanmar Health Network Organization
name: Myanmar Maternal and Child Welfare Association
First posted: 2024-06-11
Enrollment: 198
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: World Health Organization integrated husband involvement into reproductive health programs to carry out safe motherhood successfully and therefore it has been encouraged as a new strategy to improve maternal health since 2000. In Myanmar, maternal health intervention and education programs for safe motherhood are progressing but maternal mortality is still high. Even though sufficient evidences prove that husband can influence maternal health care service utilization during pregnancy and there by positively impact obstetric emergency, few interventions have focused on husband directly to involve and also effectiveness of husband involvement intervention on birth preparedness and complication readiness for safe motherhood are still limited in Myanmar. Therefore, the objective of this study is to explore the effectiveness of the men in maternity health (MiM) intervention on male involvement in maternal health care, including its impact on knowledge about maternal health related issues, attitudes towards maternal health care and birth preparedness and complication readiness (BPCR) practices and improving institutional delivery rates for safe motherhood.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria:

For Men in Maternity health (MiM) Intervention; male partners who

* Aged ≥ 18 years
* Partners' pregnancies are ≤16 weeks gestational age
* Partners are pregnant for the first time (Gravida 1)
* Currently live with their female partners
* Have been living in the study area for at least 1 year

For quantitative and qualitative assessment:

* Male partners who participated in the MiM intervention and their female partners
* Maternal health stakeholders who oversee MiM implementation and maternal health care providers in the intervention township

Exclusion criteria:

For Men in Maternity Health (MiM) Intervention, male partners who

* Are severely ill and cannot communicate
* Do not give consent

For quantitative and qualitative assessment:

* Feel uncomfortable to participate in this study
* Do not give consent
* Are severely ill and cannot communicate

Primary outcomes:
measure: Maternal Health Knowledge
timeFrame: 2 months pre-intervention and 2 months post-intervention
measure: Attitudes Towards Maternal Health
timeFrame: 2 months pre-intervention and 2 months post-intervention
measure: Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness (BPCR) Practices
timeFrame: 2 months pre-intervention and 2 months post-intervention
measure: Acceptability and Feasibility of Men in Maternity Health (MiM) Intervention
timeFrame: Up to 2 months post-intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Institutional delivery
timeFrame: Up to 3 months post-intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bangkok
country: Thailand
facility: Chulalongkorn University
Study officials:
affiliation: College of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand
name: May Chan Oo
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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