IDEAS project - Community based newborn care evaluation, midline qualitative study

Berhanu, D, Meknonen, Y and Tadesse, N. 2015. IDEAS project - Community based newborn care evaluation, midline qualitative study. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00000762.

Berhanu, D, Meknonen, Y and Tadesse, N. IDEAS project - Community based newborn care evaluation, midline qualitative study [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2015. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00000762.

Berhanu, D, Meknonen, Y and Tadesse, N (2015). IDEAS project - Community based newborn care evaluation, midline qualitative study. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00000762.

Description

The IDEAS project sought to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice. One strand of work was an evaluation of Community Based Newborn Care (CBNC), a care package rolled out across the country by the Federal Government of Ethiopia. Under CBNC, frontline health workers provide ‘Four Cs’: contact with newborns; case identification of neonatal sepsis; and care and completion of treatment. This qualitative study sought to describe programmatic activities from the perspective of CBNC or integrated community case management (ICCM) implementers (e.g. woreda health centre staff, health centre staff and NGO staff), and to identify implementations successes and challenges and make recommendations to improve the programme.

Methods

Description of data capture

36 in-depth interviews. This qualitative study, in which in-depth-interviews were conducted with programme-mangers responsible for CBNC implementation at woreda level, was undertaken simultaneously with a quantitative study. The study protocol covers both the midline survey and the qualitative study. The appendices contain the qualitative study methodology (III A), the interview guide (III B), the informed consent form template for qualitative interviews (VI A), and a script to introduce the qualitative interview to the interviewee (V A).

Data capture method

Interview: Face-to-face

Data Collection Period

From	To
October 2015	November 2015

Date (Completed)

2015

Geographical area covered

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
15.0073	48.0426	3.44644	32.7936

Language(s) of written materials

English, Amharic, Afaan Oromoo, Tigrinya

People & Groups

Data Creators	Berhanu, D, Meknonen, Y and Tadesse, N
Associated roles	Schellenberg, J (Principal Investigator), Avan, B (Project Leader), Berhanu, D (Work Package Leader), Tessema, T (Other) and Tadesse, N (Project Member)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Disease Control
Research Centre	Centre for Evaluation Centre for Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) IDEAS
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, JaRco Consulting, Addis Ababa

Projects

Funders

Project	Funder	Grant Number	Funder URI
IDEAS - Informed Decisions for Actions in Maternal and Newborn Health	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	Gates Global Health Grant Number: OPP1017031	UNSPECIFIED