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Incentivization in the form of cash, vouchers, and goods have been used as part of strategies to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes around the world. However, there exists uncertainties regarding the effectiveness of various incentive-based programmes targeted for pregnant mothers in low- and middle-income countries during their antenatal period.\n                  <\/ns4:p>\n                  <ns4:p>\n                    <ns4:bold>Methods:<\/ns4:bold>\n                    We will search six electronic databases, namely the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (Medline), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials\u00a0(CENTRAL), the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Scopus, Web of Science, and Embase in addition to Google Scholar. Manual searching of the reference lists of included studies will also be done. The reporting of this protocol will follow the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement [29]. Only interventional studies that follow randomized, quasi randomized, and cluster randomized controlled study designs will be included. A three-stage screening process will be adopted to select articles. Risk of bias for the included studies will be assessed using the tools and criteria specified in the Cochrane handbook. In addition, the GRADE approach will be used to assess the quality of evidence for the maternal and neonatal health outcomes.\n                  <\/ns4:p>\n                  <ns4:p>\n                    <ns4:bold>Conclusion:<\/ns4:bold>\n                    This review of trials is essential to inform the effectiveness of incentive-based programmes targeted for pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries. It will help the policy makers to utilise the resources more effectively and to integrate the evidence based public health initiatives into the health system. This can also help build the continuum of care financial packages for all pregnant women.\n                  <\/ns4:p>","DOI":"10.12688\/f1000research.109726.2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,13]],"date-time":"2022-05-13T05:50:20Z","timestamp":1652421020000},"page":"393","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12688\/f1000research.crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Incentives for pregnant mothers during antenatal care for better maternal and neonatal health outcomes in low and middle income countries: A systematic review protocol"],"prefix":"10.12688","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2296-3719","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ramesh","family":"Holla","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0892-8551","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bhaskaran","family":"Unnikrishnan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ratheebhai","family":"Vijayamma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3338-6478","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bhumika","family":"T V","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anju","family":"Sinha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2365-7534","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Darshan","family":"BB","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2278-1445","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rekha","family":"T","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7153-411X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Prasanna","family":"Mithra P","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4665-9401","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nithin","family":"Kumar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vaman","family":"Kulkarni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ravishankar","family":"N","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0418-5797","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rosemol","family":"Johnson K","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2560","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1640-1658","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)30471-2","article-title":"Subnational mapping of under-5 and neonatal mortality trends in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2000\u201317.","volume":"395","year":"2020","journal-title":"Lancet."},{"key":"ref5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"158","DOI":"10.1186\/s12978-018-0605-5","article-title":"Understanding barriers preventing pregnant women from starting antenatal clinic in the first trimester of pregnancy in Ntcheu District-Malawi.","volume":"15","author":"C Chimatiro","year":"2018","journal-title":"Reprod. 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We appreciate your time and willingness to review the manuscript. We have incorporated the following changes in the manuscript based on your suggestions.  \n<i>&quot;As the review is going to focus on low- and middle-income countries, it can be mentioned in title to make it more explicit.&quot;<\/i>  \n<b>Response<\/b>:&nbsp;Added the words \u2018low- and middle-income countries\u2019 in the study title. &nbsp; \n<i>&quot;In the inclusion criteria, authors can mention the incentive-based interventions can be both public health care system driven or initiated by NGOs or others.&quot;<\/i>  \n<b>Response:<\/b>&nbsp;In Intervention section, we added this sentence, \u2018the incentive-based interventions can be both public health care system driven or initiated by NGOs or others\u2019. &nbsp; \n<i>&quot;In outcomes can authors define pre-term in the same way they have defined low birth weight (LBW)?&quot;<\/i>  \n<b>Response<\/b>:&nbsp;For preterm deliveries, we added \u2018(baby born alive before 37 weeks)\u2019. &nbsp; \n<i>&quot;Please think of quasi experimental to be added\/replaced along with quasi randomized, as most of the studies could be community-based trials, where quasi experimental may sound better than quasi randomized.&quot;<\/i>  \n<b>Response<\/b>:&nbsp;Thank you for your critical feedback. Owing to time constraints and scope of the current review, we have decided to limit the review to randomized trials and quasi randomized trials only.","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/11-393\/v2#referee-comment-8219","order":1,"name":"referee-comment-8219","label":"Referee Comment","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"10.5256\/f1000research.133955.r137715, Preethy D'Souza, Social Sciences Research Unit, Department of Social Sciences, University College London Institute of Education, London, UK, 01 Jun 2022, version 2, indexed","URL":"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/11-393\/v2#referee-response-137715","order":2,"name":"referee-response-137715","label":"Referee Report","group":{"name":"article-reports","label":"Article Reports"}},{"value":"This work was supported by the Indian Council of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, Government of India. 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