Reference details | Method/Sample size/ How recruited/ Study area | Objectives | Findings/Results | Evidence level |
| A qualitative approach | To determine how to improve existing delivery care services | Most women who attended the BHC because of complications received poor-quality care. | III-3 |
| Ethnographic method | To understand constructions of birth in Bangladesh. | The result shows that childbirth is constructed in discursive practices that affect women’s use of birth care. | III-3 |
| A cross-sectional survey | To investigate umbilical cord-cutting practices in Bangladesh. | The findings highlight the importance of a clean delivery kit, especially for home deliveries. | III-3 |
| A cross-sectional study | To investigate determinant of safe motherhood. | The result suggests that socio-economic status is critical in safe motherhood. | III-3 |
| Qualitative method | To identify the experiences of SBAs in rural Bangladesh. | The result suggests that SBAs experienced a number of obstacles which include transportation, adequate equipment, lack of training. | III-3 |
| Qualitative method | To examine the experiences of SBAs in Bangladesh. | The result suggests that women in Bangladesh prefer home delivery for numerous reasons which include less expensive, privacy, easiness, and travel. | III-3 |
| Qualitative method | To explore maternal care practices among ultra-poor households in rural Bangladesh. | The result suggests that cultural beliefs have a strong effect on maternal care practices among poor women in rural Bangladesh. | III-3 |
| Mixed methods | To describe maternal beliefs and practices. | The result suggests that cultural beliefs have a strong impact on maternal beliefs and practices during pregnancy and childbirth in slum area of Bangladesh. | III-3 |
| Literature review | To improve neonatal outcomes for the implementation of interventions in Bangladesh. | Cultural beliefs and practices are heavily prevalent in newborn care in Bangladesh. | I |
| Qualitative methods | To describe the experiences rural mothers during the first postpartum period in Bangladesh. | The result suggests that rural Bangladeshi women experienced economic difficulties and health problems during the first postpartum period in Bangladesh. | III-2 |
| Mixed methods | To identify issues to improve breastfeeding in infancy. | The result suggests that poor knowledge about initiating immediate breastfeeding. | III-3 |
| Quantitative method | To describe the newborn care practices in rural Bangladesh. | The common practices include early bathing, delayed initiation of breastfeeding, and unclean cord care. | III-3 |
| Eclectic approach | To examine home delivery care practices in rural Bangladesh. | The result suggests that home delivery by untrained women is very common in rural Bangladesh. | I-V |
| Mixed methods | To explore new born care practices among slum dwellers. | The results show that the majority of babies were bathed immediate after birth. Exclusive breastfeeding was not common; the majority of women gave honey to their newborn babies. | III-3 |
| Qualitative methods | To examine access barriers for facility-based delivery in developing countries. | The result suggests that social networks helped to overcome cost and transport barriers in both counties. | III-3 |
| Quantitative method | To examine the effect of an integrated approach to reduce perinatal mortality rural Bangladesh. | The result suggests that the continuum of integrated approach helped to reduce perinatal mortality rural Bangladesh. | III-3 |
| Qualitative method | Examine the factors associated with this home delivery with TBAs in rural Bangladesh. | The factors include traditional beliefs, cultural views, religious beliefs, beliefs in TBA, lack of transport, and lack of knowledge about maternal health services. | III-3 |
| Literature review | To describe the impact of patriarchy in Bangladesh. | The result suggests that women are influenced by patriarchy through various ways which include low wages, violence, son’s preference, education, household work and dowry. | I |
| A randomised controlled trial | To examine the factors associated with delayed breastfeeding in rural Bangladesh. | The result shows that feeding other supplementary foods delayed initiation of breastfeeding in rural Bangladesh. | II |
| Qualitative method | To examine reproductive health beliefs and their consequences in rural indigenous women in Bangladesh. | The result shows that mythical beliefs and misconceptions influence rural indigenous women’s health negatively. | I-V |
| A quasi-experimental method | To examine maternal care services through provision of Skilled Birth Attendants. | The SBAs are not available at home during pregnancy and childbirth in Bangladesh. | III-2 |
| Quantitative method | To identify the impact of co-resident mother-in-law on the welfare of daughters-in-law in Bangladesh. | The result shows that living with the mother-in-law with their daughters-in-law negatively them. | III-3 |