Increasing facility delivery through maternity waiting homes for women living far from a health facility in rural Zambia: a quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To report on the effectiveness of a standardised core Maternity Waiting Home (MWH) model to increase facility deliveries among women living >10 km from a health facility.

Design

Quasi-experimental design with partial randomisation at the cluster level.

Setting

Seven rural districts in Zambia.

Population

Women delivering at 40 health facilities between June 2016 and August 2018.

Methods

Twenty intervention and 20 comparison sites were used to test whether MWHs increased facility delivery for women living in rural Zambia. Difference-in-differences (DID) methodology was used to examine the effectiveness of the core MWH model on our identified outcomes.

Main outcome measures

Differences in the change from baseline to study period in the perc

SUBMITTER: Lori JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8518771 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature