WithdrawnNot Applicable

Intervention Study to Improve Maternal Handwashing

Stopped: Donor altered priorities for available funding and eliminated the project

Kenya0Started 2016-02-01

Plain-language summary

The purpose of the handwashing intervention trial is to determine whether an interactive, storytelling approach to promoting handwashing with soap by health care workers can improve mothers' handwashing behavior during the first month of her child's life.

Who can participate

SexFEMALE

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Inclusion Criteria: * Pregnant women * Seeking routine (non-emergency) care at a participating antenatal care clinic during the study period * Between 30 and 36 weeks pregnant (calculated based on last known menstrual period) when they seek antenatal care * Live within 30 minutes or 1-2 km one-way travel from the clinic * Plan to remain in the study area for at least one month post-partum * Willing to allow the field worker to visit her home following the antenatal care visit on the day of enrollment to conduct baseline assessments at the household * Sought antenatal care from a qualified medical provider for the first time at or after 28 weeks gestation Exclusion Criteria: * Excluded if another member of their household or compound/homestead enrolled in this study * Excluded if enrolled in the formative research for this study

What they're measuring

Frequency of washing hands with soap at potential pathogen transmission events by mothers of neonate

Timeframe: 1 week post-natal

Frequency of washing hands with soap at potential pathogen transmission events by mothers of neonate

Timeframe: 2 weeks post-natal

Trial details

NCT IDNCT02764528

SponsorState University of New York at Buffalo

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2016-12-01

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