Increases in the proportions of newborns in the intervention vs the control areas who were visited in the late neonatal period (weeks 2-4) (48% vs 45%, respectively, P = 0.10) and the total number of visits by a FLW in the first month (2.1 vs 1.8, respectively, P = 0.14) did not reach statistical significance.
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Use of mobile technology by frontline health workers to promote reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition: a cluster randomized controlled Trial in Bihar, India.
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The increased use of any modern method of contraception was borderline significant, and early postnatal home visits were higher in the intervention compared to the control areas in the post-implementation phase, but unfortunately lack of baseline data for this analysis precluded attribution of the difference to the impact of the intervention.