Marriage-based pilot clean household fuel intervention in India for improved pregnancy outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Health interventions often target pregnant women and their unborn children. Interventions in rural India targeting pregnant women, however, often do not cover the critical early windows of susceptibility during the first trimester and parts of the second trimester. This pilot seeks to determine if targeting newlyweds could protect entire pregnancies with a clean stove and fuel intervention.

Methods

We recruited 50 newlywed couples who use biomass as a cooking fuel into a clean cooking intervention that included a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stove, two gas cylinders, a table to place the stove on and health education. We first evaluated whether community health workers in this region could identify and recruit couples at marriage. We quantified how many additio

SUBMITTER: Pillarisetti A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7537452 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature