Clinical trial NCT02726230: Bihar Family Health Initiative (Ananya)
Official title: Bihar Family Health Initiative (Ananya)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Maternal and Child Health
Lead sponsor: University of California, San Diego
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
First posted: 2016-04-01
Enrollment: 27633
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 15
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Ananya was funded by BMGF to reduce maternal, newborn, and child mortality; fertility; and child undernutrition in Bihar, India. Ananya involved multi-level interventions designed to build front line health worker (FLW) capacities and reach to communities and households, as well as to strengthen public health facilities and quality of care to increase maternal and neonatal care and health behaviors, and thus survival. From 2012 to 2014, eight focal districts in western and central Bihar.received Ananya, while 30 districts did not. Data were collected from mothers of infants 0-11 months at baseline and mothers of infants 0-23 months at 2 year follow-up, from comparable public health blocks in Ananya and Control districts to assess Ananya effects on quality and quantity of FLW home visits, postnatal health behaviors, and among older infants/toddlers, complementary feeding and vaccination. Difference in difference analyses were used to assess Ananya outcome effects in this quasi experimental study.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Mothers of infants 0-23 months residing in the catchment area of the subcenters (public health facilities) included in this study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Receipt of two or more home visits from an FLW in the final trimester of pregnancy, using maternal survey response
timeFrame: 2 year follow up
measure: Receipt of any postnatal home visits from an FLW (in the first 24 hours at home after delivery and in first month following delivery), using maternal survey response
timeFrame: 2-year follow-up
measure: Postnatal care behaviors (4 outcomes)- clean cord care, KMC, delayed bath, initiation of breastfeeding), reported by mothers
timeFrame: 2 year follow-up
measure: Any complementary feeding of solid or semisolid food for infants aged 6-11 months, using maternal survey response
timeFrame: 2 year follow-up
measure: Immunizations (4 outcomes)- receipt of DBT1 and DBT3 for infants 6-11 mo; receipt of DPT3 and measles vaccine for children 12-23 months, using immunization cards or maternal self report if not card
timeFrame: 2 year follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundattion
name: Yamini Atmavilas
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Ward V, Abdalla S, Raheel H, Weng Y, Godfrey A, Dutt P, Mitra R, Sastry P, Chamberlain S, Shannon M, Mehta K, Bentley J, Darmstadt Md GL; Ananya Study Group. Implementing health communication tools at scale: mobile audio messaging and paper-based job aids for front-line workers providing community health education to mothers in Bihar, India. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Jul;6(Suppl 5):e005538. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005538.
citation: Darmstadt GL, Weng Y, Pepper KT, Ward VC, Mehta KM, Borkum E, Bentley J, Raheel H, Rangarajan A, Bhattacharya D, Tarigopula UK, Nanda P, Sridharan S, Rotz D, Carmichael SL, Abdalla S, Munar W; Ananya Study Group. Impact of the Ananya program on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition in Bihar, India: early results from a quasi-experimental study. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec;10(2):021002. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.021002. Epub 2020 Dec 19.
citation: Abdalla S, Weng Y, Mehta KM, Mahapatra T, Srikantiah S, Shah H, Ward VC, Pepper KT, Bentley J, Carmichael SL, Creanga A, Wilhelm J, Tarigopula UK, Nanda P, Bhattacharya D, Atmavilas Y, Darmstadt GL; Ananya Study Group. Trends in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition indicators during five years of piloting and scaling-up of Ananya interventions in Bihar, India. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec;10(2):021003. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.021003.
citation: Ward VC, Weng Y, Bentley J, Carmichael SL, Mehta KM, Mahmood W, Pepper KT, Abdalla S, Atmavilas Y, Mahapatra T, Srikantiah S, Borkum E, Rangarajan A, Sridharan S, Rotz D, Bhattacharya D, Nanda P, Tarigopula UK, Shah H, Darmstadt GL; Ananya Study Group. Evaluation of a large-scale reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition program in Bihar, India, through an equity lens. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec;10(2):021011. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.021011. Epub 2020 Dec 19.
citation: Ghosh R, Spindler H, Dyer J, Christmas A, Cohen SR, Das A, Sonthalia S, Mahapatra T, Gore A, Shah H, Walker DM. Simulation and team training embedded nurse mentoring programme and improvement in intrapartum and newborn care in a low-resource setting in Bihar, India. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec;10(2):021010. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.021010. Epub 2020 Dec 19.
citation: Creanga AA, Jiwani S, Das A, Mahapatra T, Sonthalia S, Gore A, Kaul S, Srikantiah S, Galavotti C, Shah H. Using a mobile nurse mentoring and training program to address a health workforce capacity crisis in Bihar, India: Impact on essential intrapartum and newborn care practices. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec;10(2):021009. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.021009.
citation: Mehta KM, Irani L, Chaudhuri I, Mahapatra T, Schooley J, Srikantiah S, Abdalla S, Ward V, Carmichael SL, Bentley J, Creanga A, Wilhelm J, Tarigopula UK, Bhattacharya D, Atmavilas Y, Nanda P, Weng Y, Pepper KT, Darmstadt GL; Ananya Study Group. Health layering of self-help groups: impacts on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition in Bihar, India. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec;10(2):021007. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.021007. Epub 2020 Dec 19.
citation: Mehta KM, Irani L, Chaudhuri I, Mahapatra T, Schooley J, Srikantiah S, Abdalla S, Ward VC, Carmichael SL, Bentley J, Creanga A, Wilhelm J, Tarigopula UK, Bhattacharya D, Atmavilas Y, Nanda P, Weng Y, Pepper KT, Darmstadt GL; Ananya Study Group. Health impact of self-help groups scaled-up statewide in Bihar, India. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec;10(2):021006. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.021006. Epub 2020 Dec 19.
citation: Ward VC, Raheel H, Weng Y, Mehta KM, Dutt P, Mitra R, Sastry P, Godfrey A, Shannon M, Chamberlain S, Kaimal R, Carmichael SL, Bentley J, Abdalla S, Pepper KT, Mahapatra T, Srikantiah S, Borkum E, Rangarajan A, Sridharan S, Rotz D, Nanda P, Tarigopula UK, Atmavilas Y, Bhattacharya D, Darmstadt GL; Ananya Study Group. Impact of mHealth interventions for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition at scale: BBC Media Action and the Ananya program in Bihar, India. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec;10(2):021005. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.021005. Epub 2020 Dec 19.
citation: Abdalla S, Pair E, Mehta KM, Ward VC, Darmstadt GL. Geospatial variations in trends of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition indicators at block level in Bihar, India, during scale-up of Ananya program interventions. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec;10(2):021004. doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.021004.