Assessing the effectiveness of the Pregnancy And Newborn Diagnostic Assessment system on the quality of antenatal care in Burkina Faso: A cluster-randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Pregnancy and Newborn Diagnostic Assessment (PANDA) system is a mobile application designed to facilitate diagnosis and decision-making by healthcare staff in antenatal care (ANC). This study aimed to evaluate its effectiveness in improving the quality of ANC.

Methods

This randomised controlled trial implemented the PANDA system in two groups of health facilities (intervention and comparison groups) using a matched-pair method in the Koupéla health district, Burkina Faso. Six health centres were included in each group. We included pregnant women presenting with more than 20 weeks of amenorrhea during their first antenatal consultation, and we followed them up until their sixth week postpartum. The primary outcome was a binary variable derived from the ANC qu

SUBMITTER: Coulibaly A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11632870 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature