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Register: PACTR
Last refreshed on: 29 May 2023
Main ID:  PACTR201710002636253
Date of registration: 20/09/2017
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: University of Malawi, College of Medicine, Malawi
Public title: Feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of couple antenatal education in Blantyre, Malawi
Scientific title: Feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of couple antenatal education in Blantyre, Malawi
Date of first enrolment: 23/01/2017
Target sample size: 485
Recruitment status: Other
URL:  https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=2636
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Factorial: participants randomly allocated to either no, one, some or all interventions simultaneously,Randomised,Permuted block randomisation with variable block sizes(2, 4, 6 and 8),Sealed opaque envelopes  
Phase:  Not Applicable
Countries of recruitment
Malawi
Contacts
Name: Yohannie    Mlombe
Address:  Mahatma Ghandhi Street Private Bag, 360 Blantyre Malawi
Telephone: +265994969108/+265 01871911
Email: comrecchair@medcol.mw
Affiliation:  College of Medicine Ethics Committee Chairperson
Name: Adamson    Muula
Address:  Private Bag 360 Blantyre Malawi
Telephone: 265 01-874-377
Email: amuula@medcol.mw
Affiliation:  Primary supervisor
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: ¿ Women who will be pregnant and are 16 to 24 weeks gestation at booking.
¿ Women who have husbands and are living together.
¿ Women whose husbands are willing to be involved in antenatal education and are willing to come for antenatal couple education.
¿ Women who are willing to respond to the structured questionnaire at the beginning and finalization of the study.
¿ Women and husbands who are more than 18 years and are coming from the catchment area of the clinics.

Exclusion criteria: ¿ Women whose pregnancy is beyond 24 weeks.
¿ Women in polygamous relationship.
¿ Women who are single or married but do not stay with the male partner
¿ Women and husbands whose age is below 18 years.
¿ Women and men who received antenatal education not as husband and wife or those who received less than two couple antenatal education sessions.


Age minimum: 18 Year(s)
Age maximum: 45 Year(s)
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Maternal health

Maternal health
Intervention(s)
Husband and wife
Wife only (Standard of Care)
Primary Outcome(s)
Proportion of women prepared for birth
Secondary Outcome(s)
Knowledge score on danger signs during pregnancy, labour and delivery and postpartum period. A woman will be considered knowledgeable if she mentions one obstetric danger sign during each of the period of maternity cycle (pregnancy, labour and delivery and postpartum period).
Secondary ID(s)
College of Medicine Research and Ethics Committee (COMREC) Certificate No.P.11/151821
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Consortioum for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Status: Approved
Approval date: 21/01/2016
Contact:
College of Medicine Research and Ethics Committee (COMREC)
Results
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