Group Antenatal Care in Ghana: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While group antenatal care (ANC) has been delivered and studied in high-income countries for over a decade, it has only recently been introduced as an alternative to individual care in sub-Saharan Africa. Although the experimental design of the studies from high-resource countries have been scientifically rigorous, findings cannot be generalized to low-resource countries with low literacy rates and high rates of maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality. The Group Antenatal Care Delivery Project (GRAND) is a collaboration between the University of Michigan in the United States and the Dodowa Health Research Centre in Ghana. GRAND is a 5-year, cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT). Our intervention-group ANC-consists of grouping women by similar gestational ages of

SUBMITTER: Lori JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9508671 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature