Impact of birth preparedness savings on health facility delivery amongst women in self-help groups in Northeast Nigeria

A Cluster Randomized Trial of the impact of Birth Preparedness Savings Program on Health Facility Delivery in Gombe Northeast Nigeria

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

PACTR

Registry ID

PACTR201808525014911

Enrollment

2295

Registered

2018-08-28

Start date

2018-09-03

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-08-03

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Conditions

Pregnancy and Childbirth

Interventions

Birth preparedness savings program PLUS WORTH Intervention

WORTH Intervention

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

Female

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: All 57 political wards and 2,295 members with a live birth in the last nine months will be eligible to participate in the study. Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: New mothers’ groups formed during and/or after the baseline study; and new mother’s groups members that join the groups after the baseline study, will be excluded from the baseline and end line survey; and The cohort of pregnant women who delivered a live birth within three months of inception of BPS will be excluded from the study. It is assumed that pregnant women require at least three months of exposure to BPS to influence their place of delivery.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The primary outcome is health facility delivery amongst members with a live birth in the last 12 months. This will be measured via self-report questionnaires as a binary Yes/No categorical response during baseline and end line surveys.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Poverty status, antenatal care visits and willingness to deliver in health facility will be measured via the same self-report questionnaire. Poverty status will be measured as a continuous variable using the 10-item questions adopted from the Grahmeen’s Foundation Poverty Probability Index (PPI) tool for Nigeria. The PPI is statistically-sound, yet simple to use: the answers to 10 questions about a household’s characteristics and asset ownership are scored to compute the likelihood that the household is living below the poverty line – or above by only a narrow margin. Antenatal care visit will also be measured as a continuous variable while willingness of pregnant members to deliver their babies in a health facility will be measured as categorical Yes/No response. Lastly, duration of exposure of each respondent to the different components of the BPS intervention will be measured as a continuous variable.	—

Measure

Time frame

Poverty status, antenatal care visits and willingness to deliver in health facility will be measured via the same self-report questionnaire. Poverty status will be measured as a continuous variable using the 10-item questions adopted from the Grahmeen’s Foundation Poverty Probability Index (PPI) tool for Nigeria. The PPI is statistically-sound, yet simple to use: the answers to 10 questions about a household’s characteristics and asset ownership are scored to compute the likelihood that the household is living below the poverty line – or above by only a narrow margin. Antenatal care visit will also be measured as a continuous variable while willingness of pregnant members to deliver their babies in a health facility will be measured as categorical Yes/No response. Lastly, duration of exposure of each respondent to the different components of the BPS intervention will be measured as a continuous variable.

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Countries

Nigeria

Contacts

Public ContactKolo Yakubu

Project Director State Accountability and Quality Improvement Project

kyakubu@pactworld.org+2347039687127

Outcome results

None listed

Source: PACTR (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Aug 9, 2026