A&T Bangladesh Maternal Nutrition Baseline Survey 2015: Shasthya Shebika (SS)

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dc.creatorInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.date2020
dc.date2024-06-04T09:44:17Z
dc.date2024-06-04T09:44:17Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:36:25Z
dc.descriptionThis dataset is the result of the frontline health worker (FHW) survey conducted to gather data for the Maternal Nutrition Baseline as a part of an impact evaluation study of Alive & Thrive (A&T) interventions delivered through Building Resources Across Communities' (BRAC) Essential Health Care (EHC) Program in Bangladesh. A&T is a global 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 setting its country program goal for Bangladesh in this phase of its study, A&T decided to focus on demonstrating the feasibility of integrating a package of maternal nutrition interventions in a large-scale Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) program. Maternal nutrition should receive equal priority as child nutrition and the A&T program of BRAC already have developed an effective strategy through improving IYCF practices. The objective of this impact evaluation is to assess the impact of integrating nutrition-focused behavior change communication (BCC- interpersonal counselling and mass communication) and community mobilization into BRAC's rural MNCH program on: 1) coverage and utilization of key maternal nutrition interventions; 2) consumption of diversified and adequate amount of foods and micronutrients by pregnant and postpartum women; and 3) early breastfeeding practices. In addition, factors affecting integration of nutrition interventions into a well-established community-based MNCH program platform through frontline health workers and social mobilization were examined. The study used a cluster-randomized design with repeated cross-sectional surveys at baseline and endline. Ten subdistricts from four districts (Mymensingh, Rangpur, Kurigram, and Lalmonirhat) in which BRAC's existing rural MNCH project is in place have been selected randomly to provide intensified maternal nutrition interventions. Another 10 subdisctricts/upazilas from the same four districts have been selected as comparison for the evaluation. The baseline survey was conducted in 20 upazilas in Bangladesh between July and August 2015, and had three components: 1) Household survey for recently delivered women (RDW) and their husbands, 2) Household survey for pregnant women (PW) (with detailed dietary recall), and 3) a Frontline health workers survey (Shasthya Shebika (SS) and Shasthya Kormi (SK)). The frontline health worker (FHW) survey gathered data on service provision by BRAC frontline health workers and other healthcare providers. Data were also gathered on health workers’ time commitment, knowledge and attitude and training related to maternal nutrition, and their job motivation, satisfaction, and supervision. In addition, questions on household assets and mass media habits were included. Two questionnaires were developed for frontline health workers survey—(i) Shasthya Shebika (SS) questionnaire, and (ii) Shasthya Kormi (SK) questionnaire.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/144576
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/109249
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134809
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceInternational Food Policy Research Institute. 2020. A&T Bangladesh Maternal Nutrition Baseline Survey 2015: Shasthya Shebika (SS). Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FJBLNL. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.
dc.subjectanaemia
dc.subjectwork satisfaction
dc.subjectmotivation
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjectmass media
dc.subjecttraining
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectnutrition education
dc.subjectsupplements
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectinfant feeding
dc.subjectchild feeding
dc.subjecthealth communication
dc.subjectdeveloping countries
dc.subjecthygiene
dc.subjectdiet
dc.subjectbreastfeeding
dc.titleA&T Bangladesh Maternal Nutrition Baseline Survey 2015: Shasthya Shebika (SS)
dc.typeDataset

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