Impact Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Intervention on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes in Northern Ghana: Early Assessment of a National Scale-Up Project

Citation

Singh, Kavita; Speizer, Ilene S.; Handa, Sudhanshu; Boadu, Richard O.; Atinbire, Solomon; Barker, Pierre M.; & Twum-Danso, Nana A. Y. (2013). Impact Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Intervention on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes in Northern Ghana: Early Assessment of a National Scale-Up Project. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 25(5), 477-487. PMCID: PMC3888142

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the influence of the early phase of Project Fives Alive!, a national child survival improvement project, on key maternal and child health outcomes.
Design: The evaluation used multivariable interrupted time series analyses to determine whether change categories tested were associated with improvements in the outcomes of interest.
Participants: The evaluation used program and outcome data from interventions focused on health-care staff in 27 facilities.
Setting: Northern Ghana.
Intervention: The project uses a quality improvement (QI) approach whereby process failures are identified by health staff and process changes are tested in the health facilities and corresponding communities to address those failures.
Main Outcome Measures: The maternal health outcomes were early antenatal care attendance and skilled delivery, and the child health outcomes were underweight infants attending child wellness clinics, facility-level neonatal mortality and facility-level infant mortality. Results: Postnatal care changes for the first 1–2 days of life (

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzt054

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

2013

Journal Title

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Author(s)

Singh, Kavita
Speizer, Ilene S.
Handa, Sudhanshu
Boadu, Richard O.
Atinbire, Solomon
Barker, Pierre M.
Twum-Danso, Nana A. Y.

PMCID

PMC3888142

ORCiD

Speizer - 0000-0001-6204-1316
Singh, K - 0000-0001-8670-2262