Participant recruitment
MAY
Between May to July 2021, 232 pregnant women were identified, and 229 eligible pregnant women were enrolled in the study. The phone numbers were obtained from ANC register at Gynecology Out Patient Department in Dhulikhel hospital. Taking reference of quasi experimental study conducted in Tanzania where change in knowledge on obstetric and newborn danger signs in the post test was 77.3% in the intervention group versus 48.0% in the control group [The sample size calculation was made as: a total of 296 women, 148 in each arm were calculated to detect an effect size of 2(OR) [The 1:1 allocation was not equal. We could not enroll the original target sample size of 296 as enrollment had to be paused due to COVID-19 pandemic, leading to discrepancies in the participant’s allocation to control(n = 120) or intervention(n = 109). However, this sample size had enough power (more than 90%) to assess the effect of social media-based education on PNC knowledge [