Outcome of interventions to improve the quality of intrapartum care in Nigeria's referral hospitals: a quasi-experimental research design.

Background: Evidence indicates that Nigeria's high maternal mortality rate is attributable primarily to events that occur during the intrapartum period. This study determines the effectiveness of multifaceted interventions in improving the quality of intrapartum care in Nigeria's referral hospitals.

Methods: Data collected through an exit interview with 752 women who received intrapartum care in intervention and control hospitals were analyzed.

Outcomes of a multifaceted intervention to prevent eclampsia and eclampsia-related deaths in Nigerian referral facilities.

Background: Eclampsia causes maternal mortality in Nigeria. This study presents the effectiveness of multifaceted interventions that addressed institutional barriers in reducing the incidence and case fatality rates associated with eclampsia.

Methods: The design was quasi-experimental and the activities implemented at intervention hospitals included a new strategic plan, retraining health providers on eclampsia management protocols, clinical reviews of delivery care and educating pregnant women and their partners.

Effect of a multifaceted intervention on the utilisation of primary health for maternal and child health care in rural Nigeria: a quasi-experimental study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a set of multifaceted interventions designed to increase the access of rural women to antenatal, intrapartum, postpartum and childhood immunisation services offered in primary healthcare facilities.

Design: The study was a separate sample pretest-post-test quasi-experimental research.

Setting: The research was conducted in 20 communities and primary health centres in Esan South East and Etsako East Local Government Areas in Edo State in southern Nigeria PARTICIPANTS: Randomly selected sample of ever married women aged 15-45 years.