Implementing Kangaroo Mother Care soon after birth in district hospitals
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: P84- Other problems with newborn
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Preterm or LBW newborns (gestational age <37 weeks or birthweight <2.5 kg) requiring care in the SNCU, i.e., who are below the country cut-off point for birthweight or gestational age for SNCU admission, or those preterm or LBW newborns who are above the cut-off but are sick and need SNCU admission.
Preterm or LBW newborns requiring SNCU care who are critically sick, for example: are unable to breathe spontaneously within the first hour after birth or have congenital malformations that interfere with the intervention, or the intervention interferes with the required care for the congenital malformation (e.g., anencephaly, congenital heart disease, gastroschisis, hydrocephaly, multiple malformations, omphalocele, tracheoesophageal fistula, abdominal detention. etc.) are in shock (in need of inotropes) in the first 2 hours of birth or
are receiving mechanical ventilation (invasive mechanical ventilation) in the first 2 hours of birth; or Liveborn who died in the first 2 hours of birth or first 2 hours of admission or were dead at the time of admission to the iKMC implementing facility
These neonates (except deceased newborns) will be excluded from the study for outcome measurement purposes however they all newborns will receive appropriate care in the iKMC implementing facility.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of preterm or LBW infants who died during the first 28 days of life (among the trial participants). The primary outcome will be analysed globally in the 24 clustersTimepoint: 29th day of life
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method