Effectiveness of Awareness Training on Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness among Community Health Workers of New Delhi, India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In India, current maternal mortality ratio is 97/100,000 livebirths, and still more efforts are needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3, target 1 of 70/100,000 livebirths. Women die because of complications during and following pregnancy and childbirth. Skilled care during and immediately after delivery has been identified as one of the key strategies in reducing maternal mortality. Birth preparedness and complication readiness (BPCR) has been implemented as a comprehensive strategy to fill this gap. BPCR is one of the key interventions to reduce the maternal mortality.

Materials and methods

This was a community-based before and after interventional study (quasi-experimental study) and was conducted in two randomly selected primary health centers of South

SUBMITTER: Mamta 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11482396 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature