Effectiveness of conditional cash transfers (Afya credits incentive) to retain women in the continuum of care during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period in Kenya: a cluster-randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Given high maternal and child mortality rates, we assessed the impact of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to retain women in the continuum of care (antenatal care (ANC), delivery at facility, postnatal care (PNC) and child immunisation).

Design

We conducted an unblinded 1:1 cluster-randomised controlled trial.

Setting

48 health facilities in Siaya County, Kenya were randomised. The trial ran from May 2017 to December 2019.

Participants

2922 women were recruited to the control and 2522 to the intervention arm.

Interventions

An electronic system recorded attendance and triggered payments to the participant's mobile for the intervention arm (US$4.5), and phone credit for the control arm (US$0.5). Eligibility criteria were resident in the catchme

SUBMITTER: Vanhuyse F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8739676 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature