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Table 2 BPCR implementation strategies employed by included studies

From: Factors influencing implementation of interventions to promote birth preparedness and complication readiness

Type of strategy

Studies employing the strategy

House visits by volunteers who provide BPCR education

Ahluwalia et al. 2003; Baqui 2008; Darmstadt et al. 2010; Dickerson 2010; Hodgins et al. 2009; Hossain and Ross 2006; Kumar et al. 2012b; McPherson et al. 2006; McPherson 2010; Moran et al. 2006; Mushi, Mpembeni, and Jahn 2010a; Sinha 2008; Skinner and Rathavy 2009; Taleb 2015

Training of facility healthcare workers to provide BPCR education as part of antenatal care

Brazier et al. 2009; Dickerson 2010; Family care international 2007a, 2007b; Fonseca-Becker and Schenck-Yglesias 2004; Jennings 2010; Moran et al. 2006; Mullany, Becker, and Hindin 2007; Soubeiga, 2013; Sood, Urvashi, Palmer, et al. 2004; Taleb 2015

Providing women (and families) with booklets/flipcharts or other visual aids with BPCR information

Brazier et al. 2009; Family care international 2007a, 2007b; Fonseca-Becker and Schenck-Yglesias 2004; Hodgins et al. 2009; Hossain and Ross 2006; McPherson et al. 2006; McPherson 2010; Midhet and Becker 2010; Moran et al. 2006; Skinner and Rathavy 2009; Sood, Urvashi, Mishra, et al. 2004); Taleb 2015

Community mobilization activities (Participatory groups, village meetings or community theater and songs with BPCR information)

Brazier et al. 2009; Family care international 2007a, 2007b; Fonseca-Becker and Schenck-Yglesias 2004; Hossain and Ross 2006; Midhet and Becker 2010; Moran et al. 2006; Mushi, Mpembeni, and Jahn 2010a; Pasha 2013; Sinha 2008; Skinner and Rathavy 2009; Sood, Urvashi, Mishra, et al. 2004; Sood, Urvashi, Palmer, et al. 2004; Turan, Tesfagiorghis, and Polan 2011)

Media campaign (radio, jingles, posters, leaflets) with BPCR messages

Fonseca-Becker and Schenck-Yglesias 2004; Moran et al. 2006; Sood, Urvashi, Mishra, et al. 2004; Sood, Urvashi, Palmer, et al. 2004)

Improving (quality of) BPCR of health facilities

Pasha 2013;

No strategy, descriptive studies

Acharya et al. 2015; Agarwal 2010; August 2015; Choudhury 2011; Debelew 2014; Ekabua 2011; Hailu 2011; Hiluf 2007; Iliyasu 2010; Kabakyenga 2011; Kabakyenga 2012; Kakaire 2011; Kaso 2014; Kuteyi 2011; Magoma 2010; Magoma 2013; Markos 2014; Mbalinda 2014; Mukhopadhyay 2013; Nawal 2013; Tura 2014; Urassa 2012

No strategy, literature review

Stanton 2004; Soubeiga 2014