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Impact of a Nurse Mentorship and Digital Health Package Intervention for Maternal and Newborn Health in Kenya: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating PROMPTS and MENTORS for Quality of Care. Completed, enrolled 10,992 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The investigators will conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial in maternity facilities in Kenya to evaluate the impact of a maternal and neonatal health package intervention on patient and provider outcomes. This package intervention includes two programs: PROMPTS, a digital health platform for mothers aimed to improve knowledge and health behaviors and increase care-seeking behavior at the right time and place, and MENTORS, a facility-based program aimed to increase and sustain providers' knowledge and skills in basic and emergency obstetric and newborn care. Facilities will be randomized into a treatment group that receives the package or a control group that receives usual care. Patient outcomes include health knowledge, health behaviors and health care utilization in the prenatal and postnatal period; provider outcomes include knowledge and quality of care.
Study Details
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Interventions
PROMPTS is a two-way Short Message Service (SMS) digital health platform that connects mothers with information, advice and referrals to care during the prenatal and postnatal period. The platform also collects information from women on care experience that is reported back to maternity facilities.
MENTORS is a program in which in facility nurse-mentors are trained and supported to offer training to nurses, midwives and other maternity facility staff on aspects of basic and emergency obstetric and newborn care.