Effect of community health education on mothers’ knowledge of obstetric danger signs and birth preparedness and complication readiness practices in southern Ethiopia: A cluster randomized controlled trial
Amanuel Yoseph, Wondwosen Teklesilasie, Francisco Guillen-Grima, Ayalew Astatkie, Doris Verónica Ortega-Altamirano, Doris Verónica Ortega-Altamirano, Doris Verónica Ortega-Altamirano, Doris Verónica Ortega-Altamirano · 2024
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Amanuel Yoseph and co-authors ran in 2024 a trial of community health education for pregnant women in southern Ethiopia. Knowing obstetric danger signs and preparing for birth and complications can push women toward skilled care. The intervention used women's groups to teach context-specific lessons. The trial randomized twenty-four village clusters in the Sidama region, half to education and half to control.
Over a thousand pregnant women took part across the two arms. Excessive bleeding was the danger sign most often named at childbirth. Good knowledge of danger signs reached about sixty-nine percent in the taught group, against thirty-six percent among controls. Saving money and supplies was the most common preparation step. The authors read the gap as a strong effect of group-led teaching. Such programs, they suggest, can scale through existing women's networks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Amanuel Yoseph, Wondwosen Teklesilasie, Francisco Guillen-Grima, Ayalew Astatkie, Doris Verónica Ortega-Altamirano, Doris Verónica Ortega-Altamirano, Doris Verónica Ortega-Altamirano, Doris Verónica Ortega-Altamirano |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 108 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |