The role of a community health worker-delivered preconception and pregnancy intervention in achieving a more positive pregnancy experience: the Bukhali trial in Soweto, South Africa.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe Human Research Ethics Committee (Medical) at the University of the Witwatersrand approved the study (M171137, M1811111). All procedures were carried out according to the Declaration of Helsinki, and participants gave written informed consent to participate in the study prior to their enrolment. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This study was supported by the South African Medical Research Council and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. SK is supported by Kone Foundation (grant number 202105895). SAN, KM, and LMS are supported by the South African DSI/NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development. Opinions expressed and conclusions arrived at, are those of the authors and are not to be attributed to the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Human Development. The funding sources had no role in the study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation of data or in writing the manuscript."

"Trial registration Pan African Clinical Trials Registry PACTR201903750173871, 27/03/2019."