Table 1.

Studies detailing interventions promoting awareness of women’s rights for maternity care services with reported specified health outcomes (N = 4)

#	Study	Study type and quality Document type	Setting	Nature of intervention/initiative/project	Reported health outcomes
1	Pandey, Sehfal, Roboud, Levine & Goyal 2007	-Cluster randomized trial -Strong quality Journal article	Uttar Pradesh, India Study in 105 village clusters across 21 districts; Intervention with 22,495 households in 55 village clusters across 11 districts	4–6 public meetings during two visits spaced 2 weeks apart to disseminate information about entitled health and education services and village governance	ANC increase
2	Bjorkman & Svensson 2009	-Cluster randomized trial -Moderate quality Journal article	Uganda Rural Uganda, 4 regions, 9 districts; Study included 50 communities. Intervention with approximately 55,000 households in 25 communities	A community score card process with a week of meetings when communities and health facility staff review local priorities and action plans and agree on contracts monitored by communities, revisited in meetings 6 months later	ANC increase (not statistically significant) Facility delivery increase
3	Ganju, Khanna, Taparia & Hardikar 2014	-Participatory action research -Weak quality Newsletter article	Gujarat, India Intervention with 10,374 people in 12 villages in two districts	Over 2 years local volunteers visit families and prospectively fill a monitoring tool for every woman once during pregnancy and once during post-partum. A report card is developed to dialogue with different stakeholders and support local action.	ANC increase Facility delivery increase
4	Sinha 2008	-Pre- and post-intervention design -Weak quality Working paper	Andhra Pradesh, India Intervention with approximately 40,000 people in 37 villages and poor area of headquarter village in 1 district;	Over 15 months awareness raising and community support for pregnant women through local government and youth committees; involvement of their families through monthly meetings; and home visits by a community organizer who worked with families to create a birth preparedness plan and support access to care.	ANC increase Facility delivery increase