A repeated cross-sectional study of the association of community health worker intervention with the maternal continuum of care in rural Liberian communities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The maternal continuum of care (CoC) (antenatal care, facility-based delivery, postnatal care) is critical to maternal and neonatal health and reducing mortality, but completion in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries is often limited. We used repeated cross-sectional household surveys from a rural Liberian county to explore changes in rates of completion of all steps and no steps in the maternal CoC after implementation of the National Community Health Assistant Program (NCHAP), a community health worker (CHW) intervention designed to increase care uptake for families over five kilometers from a facility.

Methods

We analyzed repeated cross-sectional household surveys of women aged 18-49 served by NCHAP in Rivercess County, Liberia. We measured survey-w

SUBMITTER: Blizzard S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10701987 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature