Birth preparedness and complication readiness among women and couples and its association with skilled birth attendance in rural Bangladesh

• Sajia Islam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sajia Islam, Janet Perkins

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SI and JP are joint first authors on this work. MABS andTM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Janet Perkins ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sajia Islam, Janet Perkins

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SI and JP are joint first authors on this work. MABS andTM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Health Department, Enfants du Monde, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Md. Abu Bakkar Siddique ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ SI and JP are joint first authors on this work. MABS andTM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Tapas Mazumder ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SI and JP are joint first authors on this work. MABS andTM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Mohammad Rifat Haider,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Norman J Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0690-8242

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• Mohammad Masudur Rahman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Norman J Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8995-748X

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• Cecilia Capello,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Department, Enfants du Monde, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Dewan Md. Emdadul Hoque,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Carlo Santarelli,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Department, Enfants du Monde, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Shams El Arifeen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ehsanur@icddrb.org

  Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9216-1079

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