NAITRE study on the impact of conditional cash transfer on poor pregnancy outcomes in underprivileged women: protocol for a nationwide pragmatic cluster-randomised superiority clinical trial in France.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Prenatal care is recommended during pregnancy to improve neonatal and maternal outcomes. Women of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are less compliant to recommended prenatal care and suffer a higher risk of adverse perinatal outcomes. Several attempts to encourage optimal pregnancy follow-up have shown controversial results, particularly in high-income countries. Few studies have assessed financial incentives to encourage prenatal care, and none reported materno-fetal events as the primary outcome. Our study aims to determine whether financial incentives could improve pregnancy outcomes in women with low SES in a high-income country.

Methods and analysis

This pragmatic cluster-randomised clinical trial includes pregnant women with the following criteria: (1) age

SUBMITTER: Bardou M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5665235 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature