Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce perinatal morTality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa

Project Information

ALERT

Grant agreement ID: 847824

DOI 10.3030/847824

EC signature date 5 December 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 31 December 2024

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and well-being

Total cost € 3 999 976,25

EU contribution € 3 999 976,25

Coordinated by

KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
Sweden

Deliverables

Documents, reports (1)

Trial protocol submitted

We will provide a full protocol of our intervention and evaluation design. The protocol will follow the standards of reporting as provided in the CONSORT statement for stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trials including the i) intervention details; ii) settings iii) outcomes and the assessment methods of outcomes as well as iv) a discussion on expected results. We aim to submit to BMC Implementation Science.

Other (2)

Report of prototype for a perinatal e-registies

We will prepare a full protocol as well as the data quality assurance tools and the data entry platform. The report will include i) the variables to be assessed; b) the data collection details including the daily, weekly and monthly summary sheets and quality assurance measures c) and the data processing and data use details. The annex will include a detailed health providers protocol detailing instructions in relation to each variable.

Developed training modules

We will develop adapted training modules specifically to expressed needs of the care providers and observed challenges in the maternities. The deliverable will include the curriculum, the developed education materials including ppt, exercises, group work instructions etc. A facilitator guide will also be included.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Assessment of midwifery care providers intrapartum care competencies, in four sub-Saharan countries: a mixed-method study protocol

Author(s): Ann-Beth Moller, Joanne Welsh, Mechthild M. Gross, Max Petzold, Elizabeth Ayebare, Effie Chipeta, Hashim Hounkpatin, Bianca Kandeya, Beatrice Mwilike, Antoinette Sognonvi, Claudia Hanson
Published in: Reproductive Health, Issue 18/1, 2021, ISSN 1742-4755
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12978-021-01109-8

Methodological reflections on health system-oriented assessment of maternity care in 16 hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa: an embedded case study

Author(s): Anteneh Asefa, Jean-Paul Dossou, Claudia Hanson, Christelle Boyi Hounsou, Gertrude Namazzi, Samuel Meja, Dickson Ally Mkoka, Gottfried Agballa, Josephine Babirye, Aline Semaan, Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, Thérèse Delvaux, Bruno Marchal, Sara Van Belle, Virginia Castellano Pleguezuelo, Lenka Beňová
Published in: Health policy and planning, Issue 37 / 10, 2022, ISSN 0268-1080
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czac078

Understanding maternity care providers’ use of data in Southern Tanzania

Author(s): Regine Unkels, Fadhlun Alwy Al-Beity, Zamoyoni Julius, Elibariki Mkumbo, Andrea B Pembe, Claudia Hanson, Helle Molsted-Alvesson
Published in: BMJ global health, Issue 8 / 1, 2023, ISSN 2059-7908
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010937

Protocol for a scoping review to identify and map in-service education and training materials for midwifery care in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2020

Author(s): Joanne Welsh, Mechthild M Gross, Claudia Hanson, Hashim Hounkpatin, Ann-Beth Moller
Published in: BMJ Open, Issue 11/3, 2021, Page(s) e047118, ISSN 2044-6055
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047118

Midwifery care providers' childbirth and immediate newborn care competencies: A cross-sectional study in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.

Author(s): Moller, A. B., Welsh, J., Agossou, C., Ayebare, E., Chipeta, E., Dossou, J. P., Gross, M. M., Houngbo, G., Hounkpatin, H., Kandeya, B., Mwilike, B., Petzold, M., & Hanson, C.
Published in: PLOS global public health, Issue 3(6), 2023, ISSN 2767-3375
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001399

Strengthening capacity in hospitals to reduce perinatal morbidity and mortality through a codesigned intervention package: protocol for a realist evaluation as part of a stepped-wedge trial of the Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce perinatal morTality and morbidity (ALERT) in sub-Saharan Africa project

Author(s): Ibukun-Oluwa Omolade Abejirinde, Virginia Castellano Pleguezuelo, Lenka Benova, Jean-Paul Dossou, Claudia Hanson, Christelle Boyi Metogni, Samuel Meja, D A Mkoka, Gertrude Namazzi, Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, Bruno Marchal, The ALERT Study Team
Published in: BMJ Open, Issue 12 / 4, 2022, ISSN 2044-6055
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057414

Are midwives ready to provide quality evidence-based care after pre-service training? Curricula assessment in four countries—Benin, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda

Author(s): Ann-Beth Moller, Joanne Welsh, Elizabeth Ayebare, Effie Chipeta, Mechthild M. Gross, Gisele Houngbo, Hashim Hounkpatin, Bianca Kandeya, Beatrice Mwilike, Gorrette Nalwadda, Max Petzold, Antoinette Sognonvi, Claudia Hanson
Published in: PLOS Global Public Health, Issue 2 / 9, 2022, ISSN 2767-3375
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000605

Do in-service training materials for midwifery care providers in sub-Saharan Africa meet international competency standards? A scoping review 2000–2020

Author(s): Joanne Welsh, Hashim Hounkpatin, Mechthild M. Gross, Claudia Hanson & Ann-Beth Moller
Published in: BMC Medical Education, Issue 22 / 1, 2022, ISSN 1472-6920
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-022-03772-2

Mothers' perceptions and experiences of caring for sick newborns in Newborn Care Units in public hospitals in Eastern Uganda: a qualitative study.

Author(s): Wanduru, P., Hanson, C., Waiswa, P., Kakooza-Mwesige, A., & Alvesson, H. M.
Published in: Reproductive health, Issue 20(1), 106, 2023, ISSN 1742-4755
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12978-023-01649-1

Action leveraging evidence to reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity (ALERT): study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda

Author(s): Joseph Akuze, Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, Lenka Benova, Effie Chipeta, Jean-Paul Dossou, Mechthild M. Gross, Hussein Kidanto, Bruno Marchal, Helle Mölsted Alvesson, Andrea B. Pembe, Wim van Damme, Peter Waiswa, Claudia Hanson & ALERT Study Team
Published in: BMC Health Services Research, Issue 21 / 1, 2021, ISSN 1472-6963
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-07155-z

Provision and utilization of maternal health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in 16 hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa.

Author(s): Semaan, A., Annerstedt, K. S., Beňová, L., Dossou, J. P., Boyi Hounsou, C., Agballa, G., Namazzi, G., Kandeya, B., Meja, S., Ally Mkoka, D., Asefa, A., El-halabi, S., & Hanson, C.
Published in: Frontiers in Global Women's Health, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 2673-5059
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A
DOI: 10.3389/fgwh.2023.1192473