Evaluation of a community health worker intervention and the World Health Organization's Option B versus Option A to improve antenatal care and PMTCT outcomes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled health systems implementation trial

Trials

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sando, David ^a,b   Geldsetzer, Pascal ^a   Magesa, Lucy ^b   Lema, Irene Andrew ^b   Machumi, Lameck ^b   Mwanyika Sando, Mary ^b   Li, Nan ^a   Spiegelman, Donna ^a   Mungure, Ester ^b   Siril, Hellen ^b,c   Mujinja, Phares ^c   Naburi, Helga ^c   Chalamilla, Guerino ^b   Kilewo, Charles ^c   Ekström, Anna M ^d,e   Fawzi, Wafaie W ^a   Bärnighausen, Till W ^a,f  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT FOR HEALTH   (Tanzania)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f AFRICA HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Community health workers; HIV; Prevention of mother to child transmission; Retention; Study protocol; Uptake

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WARD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STANDARDS; TANZANIA; TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSMISSION;

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SYSTEMS PLANS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; TANZANIA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84908098753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-359     Document Type: Article

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