Pregnancy and Childbirth
Conditions
Interventions
Climate specific health literacy training for health workers
Sponsors
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
Navrongo Health Research Centre
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: All pregnant women who are living in the intervention area and who have access to health services at the intervention facilities. Those who are willing to consent to the study. Key household members (e.g. husbands, mother-in-laws) of the pregnant women who are willing to consent to the study. Maternal health workers with at least two years of experience at the health facility, who are willing to consent to the study.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Pregnant women who are unwilling to consent to the study. Health workers will be excluded if they have less than two years of experience at the facility. Health workers who are reluctant to consent to the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Birth weight | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Changes in climate-specific health literacy and behaviour during times of extreme heat among pregnant women;Changes in breastfeeding practices among postpartum women;Changes in climate-specific health literacy among maternal health workers;Intervention Reach - The number of health workers trained to deliver the intervention;Intervention Reach - The number of pregnant women who have received the intervention;Intervention Adoption - Quantitative assesment of the dimensions of the that healthcare workers have adopted and effectively delivered;Intervention Adoption - Adoption patterns of climate-specific heat counselling content and other heat adaptation measures among health workers;Intervention Implementation - Fidelity of the implementation at the health facility;Intervention Implementation - Intervention adherence among pregnant women;Intervention Implementation - Perceptions on the feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness of the intervention among health workers;Intervention implementation - perception about the feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness of the intervention within the community;Intervention implementation - success and challenges of the implementation strategy;Intervention Maintenance - Challenges and enablers of the intervetion adoption;Intervention Maintenance - integrating the heat adaptation strategies into existing health system structures, institutionalisation and sustainability | — |
Countries
Ghana
Contacts
Public ContactEdmund Yeboah
Postdoctoral researcher
Outcome results
None listed