Saving Lives at Birth in Uganda: Building and Sustaining Capacity of Frontline Health Workers - A Program Evaluation

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The study aims are to evaluate the impact of supportive follow-up strategies for a novel twinned training and capacity-sustaining program among frontline health workers (providers) attending facility-based births in remote and district level health facilities in Uganda. The program is designed to improve provider competencies, provider performance and health outcomes among women giving birth and newborns.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Jhpiego
• Collaborator: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• Treatments: Misoprostol; Oxytocin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• For Providers: Health providers who attend births in participating health facility and consent to be assessed at the time of enrollment and at several points in time over two years.

• For Clinical mentors: being an experienced skilled birth attendant and likely to remain at the facility during the study period

For Women in Labor and Delivery and Newborns: Women in any stage of labor in participating facility who consent to observation of their delivery and care of their newborn (or consent from the next of kin if the woman is incapacitated and not able to provide consent)

Facility In-charges and Stakeholders: Facility in-charges at sampled health facilities; stakeholders identified by Jhpiego senior managers as being influential in maternal and newborn health policy decisions in Uganda.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Providers: has <1 year of experience, and has plans to be transferred to another facility or leave the facility soon

• Other types of participants: none