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Study aim and objectives

Overall aim of the PartoMa study

In an East African referral hospital, to develop and analyze the effect
of locally agreed and achievable guidelines and a continual in-house
training program for strengthening partogram-based monitoring-to-action
during labour.

Specific objectives

I (a) To analyze in depth current quality of intrapartum care by a mixed methods approach, including exploration of underlying challenges in care delivery and an association between suboptimal labour care and perinatal mortality. (b) To conduct a criterion-based audit of stillbirths investigating direct and indirect causes and related maternal risks.

II. To develop locally achievable and agreed partogram-associated labour monitoring-to-action guidelines (the PartoMa guidelines) for strengthening the partogram use as a decision support tool, and study its acceptability by skilled birth attendants.

III. To implement the PartoMa guidelines and low cost, low dose, high frequency, in-house training for strengthening the use of the partogram as a decision support tool, and study the effect on knowledge, skills, quality of intrapartum care, record keeping, and perinatal outcome.

IV. To develop an electronic smartphone application (the PartoMa app), which includes
the PartoMa guidelines.