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Table 6 Neonatal and maternal outcomes for well performing intervention clusters and control clusters in the same strata for the entire intervention and restricted to the last six months of the intervention

From: A combined community- and facility-based approach to improve pregnancy outcomes in low-resource settings: a Global Network cluster randomized trial

 

Group

 
 

Well performing intervention clusters

Control clusters same strata

P-value

Clusters, N

33

36

 

Outcomes for full intervention period

   

Births ≥1,000 g, N

40,897

42,662

 

Primary outcome - Mean (95% CI)

   

  Perinatal mortality (<7 days) (Rate/1,000)

40.6 (37.0, 44.1)

40.4 (37.0, 43.7)

0.9404

Secondary outcomes - Mean (95% CI)

   

  Stillbirths (Rate/1,000)

21.8 (19.2, 24.5)

23.3 (21.0, 25.6)

0.4087

  Fresh stillbirth (Rate/1,000)

14.9 (12.5, 17.3)

15.7 (14.0, 17.4)

0.5504

  Early neonatal mortality (<7 days) (Rate/1,000)

19.2 (17.6, 20.8)

17.8 (16.2, 19.3)

0.2095

  Neonatal mortality (<28 days) (Rate/1,000)

24.6 (22.6, 26.7)

21.9 (20.0, 23.7)

0.0516

  Fresh stillbirths + neonatal deaths <7 days (Rate/1,000)

33.9 (30.6, 37.1)

33.2 (30.4, 36.0)

0.7365

  Maternal mortality (<42 days) (Rate/100,000)

103.2 (71.7, 148.5)

108.5 (76.0, 154.8)

0.7425

Outcomes for final six months of intervention period

   

Births ≥1,000 g, N

10,514

10,568

 

Primary outcome - Mean (95% CI)

   

  Perinatal mortality (<7 days) (Rate/1,000)

38.1 (33.6, 42.6)

41.3 (36.5, 46.1)

0.3666

Secondary outcomes - Mean (95% CI)

   

  Stillbirths (Rate/1,000)

21.3 (18.0, 24.6)

23.2 (19.4, 27.0)

0.4976

  Fresh stillbirth (Rate / 1,000)

14.4 (11.3, 17.5)

13.3 (10.9, 15.8)

0.6080

  Early neonatal mortality (<7 days) (Rate/1,000)

17.7 (14.8, 20.6)

18.7 (15.7, 21.7)

0.6118

  Neonatal mortality (<28 days) (Rate/1,000)

23.0 (19.3, 26.8)

22.8 (19.1, 26.5)

0.9220

  Fresh stillbirths + neonatal deaths <7 days (Rate/1,000)

31.4 (27.3, 35.6)

32.1 (28.7, 35.5)

0.8153