A&T Burkina Faso Maternal Nutrition Baseline Survey 2019: Households - Pregnant Women

Author(s)
  • International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Release Year 2019
Regions
  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
Themes
  • Nutrition and health
Source HARVARD Dataverse
Data collection period -
Temporal coverage -
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License CC-BY
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Methodology
Instrument Structured questionnaire
Sampling A cluster is defined as the health and social promotion center (CSPS) catchment area. Two health districts in Boucle du Mouhoun (with 40 CSPS) and two health districts in the Hauts-Bassins region (with 40 CSPS) were selected as intervention areas. Stratified random allocation was applied to obtain a more balanced distribution of cluster-level covariates between study arms. First, clusters/CSPS were divided by health districts. Then, clusters were stratified into 2-4 strata using available data on six criteria (type of catchment area, number of villages covered, total population size, total number of pregnant women and children <6 months, number of ANC admissions and proportion of ANC attended, and distance between CSPS and district hospital). Then, Stata was used to assign unique computer-generated random numbers to each cluster, sort numbers, and allocate each cluster in order to one of two study arms (intervention or control). The samples across the two regions were pooled to estimate effects at program level. In the catchment area of the pre-selected CSPS, a census was conducted in three randomly selected villages representing the CSPS catchment area to identify pregnant and recently delivered women. From two separate lists (for pregnant women and recently delivered women), women were randomly selected by simple random sampling until the required sample sizes were reached. If husbands of recently delivered women were present, they were also included in the survey. At each CSPS, the nurse-midwife mainly responsible for providing ANC services was invited to participate in the study. In each surveyed village, the community health worker (ASBC) mainly responsible for ANC/care for pregnant women or, in the case that more than one ASBC was responsible, with the longest duration in that position were invited to participate in the study. In addition, at each CSPS, two ANC sessions that took place during the time of the survey were observed, with prior permission and consent for observation and post-observation exit interview
Unit of analysis Pregnant women
Universe 960 pregnant women aged 15-49 years who resided in the A&T study health and social promotion center (CSPS) catchment areas in the Hauts-Bassins and Boucle du Mouhoun regions of Burkina Faso.
Contact point IFPRI-Data
Funding Organisations Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Irish Aid tanoto foundation United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) World Bank Group (WB) tanoto foundation
Providers International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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full citation International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2022. A&T Burkina Faso Maternal Nutrition Baseline Survey 2019: Households - Pregnant Women. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LKI25D. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

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Abstract

Alive & Thrive (A&T) is an initiative that supports the scaling up of nutrition interventions to save lives, prevent illnesses, and contribute to healthy growth and development through improved maternal nutrition, breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices. In Burkina Faso, A&T developed and tested an intensive package of maternal nutrition interventions to be integrated into existing ANC services delivered through government health facilities. These included intensified counseling and support on dietary diversity and quality during pregnancy, iron-folic acid (IFA) supplements consumption, importance of ANC and increasing the number of visits, adequate weight-gain monitoring, and early initiation of and exclusive breastfeeding. This dataset is part of a survey that was conducted to gather baseline data for the impact evaluation of the interventions. The overall study objective was to evaluate the feasibility of integrating locally relevant maternal nutrition interventions into ANC services provided by the government health system and their impact on diet quality and quantity and utilization of nutrition interventions during pregnancy. Research questions include: 1) What are the program impacts on maternal nutrition practices: (1) consumption of diversified foods and adequate intake of micronutrient, protein and energy compared to recommended intakes; (2) consumption of IFA supplements during pregnancy; and (3) early breastfeeding practices? 2) Can the coverage and utilization of key nutrition interventions (maternal nutrition counseling, weight gain monitoring, distribution of and counseling on IFA supplementation, and breastfeeding counseling) and number of ANC contacts be improved through health system strengthening and nutrition-focused social and behavior change communication (SBCC; interpersonal communication and community mobilization) approaches? 3) What factors influenced integration and strengthening of maternal nutrition interventions into the government ANC service delivery platform? The evaluation used a two-arm cluster-randomized, non-masked trial design, consisting of two cross-sectional surveys at baseline and endline. The unit of randomization was the health and social promotion center (CSPS, Centre de Santé et de Promotion Social in French) catchment area. The baseline survey was conducted in November-December 2019 by Agence de Formation de Recherche et d'Expertise en Santé pour l'Afrique (AFRICSanté), the in-country research collaborator for the survey. The baseline survey included the following: 1) Pregnant women questionnaire, 2) Recently delivered women questionnaire, 3) Husbands of recently delivered women questionnaire, 4), Nurse-midwife questionnaire, 5) Community health agents (agent de santé communautaire, ASBCs) questionnaire, 6) Health facility observation checklist, and 7) ANC observation and exit interview. The pregnant women interviews were conducted using pretested, structured questionnaires. Information was collected on household composition, household socioeconomic status, obstetric history, use of ANC, exposure to ANC, maternal nutrition and breastfeeding knowledge, household food security, social desirability, decision-making power, and mental health. A multi-pass 24-hour recall collected data on food intake over the previous 24-hours and recipes of prepared dishes.