Comparing Care Groups With Participatory Women’s Groups
| Care Groups | Participatory Women’s Groups | |
|---|---|---|
| Skilled external facilitators | Required | Required |
| Importance of group interaction | Contributes to effectiveness | Central focus |
| Health message communication | Central focus | Secondary focus |
| Role of women’s group members | Peer health educators to neighboring households | Problem solvers developing community solutions |
| Population coverage strategy | Blanket coverage, through group members, of households with pregnant women and children under 5 | Initially no explicit strategy aiming at coverage, but—based on RCT results—for achieving impact, recommend reaching ≥30% of pregnant women |