Comprehensive Anaemia Programme and Personalized Therapies (CAPPT): protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial testing the effect women’s groups, home counselling and iron supplementation on haemoglobin in pregnancy in southern Nepal

Table 2 Process indicators

Intervention exposure and activities
Number of home visits received (0, 1 or 2)¹
Family actions agreed upon in the home visit
Which family members took part in the home visit interaction
Doses of IFA prescribed
Exposure to PLA community strategies¹
Whether any family members attended PLA groups
Which family members attended
Social and behaviour change processes
Health literacy
Social norms
IFA and ANC processes
Numbers of IFA tablets consumed in relation to those prescribed
Uptake of any antenatal care
Quality of antenatal care
Gestational age at first ANC visit
Dietary processes
Amounts of key promoted foods consumed by pregnant women
Intra-household allocation, as PW’s share {PW/(PW + senior male)} of nutrients in term of Mean probability of micronutrient adequacy, iron intake, and energy adequacy
Weight gain in pregnancy from enrolment to 30 ± 2 weeks (kg)
Side effects
Constipation¹
Indigestion/heart burn¹
Vomiting¹

¹These process indicators will be reported in the main trial paper whereas others may be reported in one or more separate process evaluation publications rather than in the trial paper

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