Published on in Vol 7, No 8 (2018): August

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/10095, first published .
A Liftless Intervention to Prevent Preterm Birth and Low Birthweight Among Pregnant Ghanaian Women: Protocol of a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

A Liftless Intervention to Prevent Preterm Birth and Low Birthweight Among Pregnant Ghanaian Women: Protocol of a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

A Liftless Intervention to Prevent Preterm Birth and Low Birthweight Among Pregnant Ghanaian Women: Protocol of a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Emma Kwegyir-Afful   1 , BA, MSc ;   Jos Verbeek   2 , MD, PhD ;   Lydia Aziato   3 , BA, Mphil, PhD ;   Joseph D. Seffah   4 , MBChB, FWACS ;   Kimmo Räsänen   1 , MD, PhD

1 Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

2 Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Kuopio, Finland

3 School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

4 Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

Corresponding Author:

  • Emma Kwegyir-Afful, BA, MSc
  • Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition
  • School of Medicine
  • University of Eastern Finland
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