Can Village Health Volunteers/Workers Working As Male-Female Pairs Improve the Use of Postnatal Care Services in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Paired Community Health Workers.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Pregnant Women, Lactating Mother. Basic parameters: 15 years — 49 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Laos
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Effectiveness of Village Health Volunteers/Workers Working As Male-Female Pairs on Women's Use of Postnatal Care Services in Sepone District in Lao People's Democratic Republic: a Protocol for a Quasi-experimental Cluster Study
Overview
The study aims to assess the effectiveness of male-female VHV/Ws working in pairs on women's uptake of second PNC visits in rural Sepone, Lao PDR. Methods A quasi-experimental cluster study will be conducted between July 2024 and October 2026 in 37 selected sites from two districts in southern Lao PDR. In 19 selected intervention villages in the Sepone district, female-male VHV/Ws pairs will promote postpartum services, whereas, in 18 similar control villages in the Vilabuly district, VHV/Ws will work as individuals.
Interventions
- Behavioral Paired Community Health Workers
Community Health Workers will promote maternal and child health services as paired female and male
Primary outcome measures
- Uptake of second postnatal care visit [Time frame: 6 weeks after delivery]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Lenght of facility-based postpartum stay [Time frame: cutoff is 12 hours]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Women who gave birth within six weeks and twelve months before the study's baseline and end-line surveys.
Exclusion criteria
- Women whose births resulted in a loss,
- Women who do consent to participate in the surveys
- Women who face a language barrier with surveyors will not be enrolled.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Non-randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Double blind
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
Study locations
Laos · 1 center
- Sepon and Vilabouly districts — Savannakhet
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06654505 · 24-2329-00-00-00