Improving access to maternal health services among rural hard-to-reach fishing communities in Uganda, the role of community health workers.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore whether community health worker household-based maternal health visits improve antenatal care and skilled birth attendance among hard-to-reach fishing villages on Lake Victoria, Uganda.

Methods

This quasi-experimental 18-month prospective study involved 486 consenting women aged 15-49 years, who were pregnant or had a pregnancy outcome in the past 6 months, from 6 island fishing communities. The community health worker household-based intervention (community health workers' household visits to provide counseling, blood pressure measurement, anemia, and HIV testing) involved 243 women from three fishing communities. Random effects logistic regression was used to determine the association between the community health worker intervention and antenatal care

SUBMITTER: Ssetaala A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9234847 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature