A prospective, quasi-experimental study was carried out in 2009 at urban health centres (UHCs)
of five townships of Mandalay, Myanmar, to improve the skill of midwives (MWs) in diagnosis and
referral of pre-eclampsia (PE) from UHC to the Central Women’s Hospital (CWH) and to enhance
the supervision of midwives by lady health visitors (LHVs). The intervention was training on quality
antenatal care focusing on PE using an updated training manual. Altogether, 75 health care providers
(MWs & LHVs) participated. In this study, data were extracted from patient registers and monthly
reports of UHCs and CWH. Interviewers were trained regarding the conduct of semi-structured
questionnaires to elicit knowledge and to use checklists in observation of skills in screening of
PE, measuring blood pressure and urine protein (dipstick test). A guide for LHVs was also used
to obtain data, and data was collected six months prior to and after the intervention. Significant
improvements from baseline to endline survey occurred in the knowledge (p