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Mobile Phone Networks - Assisted Deliveries Increase of 60% vs. 47%

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Strategy researched
 
The association between a mobile phone intervention and skilled delivery attendance in a resource-limited setting
 
Country of study
 
Zanzibar, Tanzania
 
Research methodology
 
Pragmatic RCT
 
Journal
 
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology; 2012
 
Journal paper title and link
 
Mobile phones as a health communication tool to improve skilled attendance at delivery in Zanzibar: a cluster-randomised controlled trial
 
Excerpt from Abstract
 
"The mobile phone intervention was associated with an increase in skilled delivery attendance: 60% of the women in the intervention group versus 47% in the control group delivered with skilled attendance. The intervention produced a significant increase in skilled delivery attendance amongst urban women (odds ratio, 5.73; 95% confidence interval, 1.51–21.81), but did not reach rural women."
 
Abstract at this link

 

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