Saving Lives of Newborn (SaLiN): A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Applying Helping Baby Breathe to Manage Birth Asphyxia in Sarlahi District of Madhesh Province, Nepal
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Newborn Morbidity
- Sponsor
- Integrated Development Foundation Nepal
- Enrollment
- 100
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Skill performance of the newborn care provider
- Status
- Recruiting
- Last Updated
- 2 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The cluster randomized controlled trial will be conducted in the selected health facilities/birthing centers of Sarlahi district in Nepal. Further from the selected health facilities. The investigators will assess the newborn in terms of their health outcomes. Characteristics related to the performance of skilled birth attendants will be measured prior to the intervention. After six months of the intervention, endline assessment will be conducted. The intervention unit are the health facilities which provide the services as birthing centers. The effectiveness of the intervention will be examined using generalized estimating equation against baseline vs. endline on skills performance of the health workers and newborn health outcomes. The study will be implied in the similar settings to improve the skill performance and newborn health outcomes in order to reduce neonatal mortality.
Detailed Description
In Nepal, health facilities need to be strengthened and the staff should be tailored training at health facilities who are designated as birthing center. Although, the health facility readiness survey has shown that health facilities had availability of bag and mask (neonatal) neonatal resuscitation equipment in delivery room (Kc et al., 2020). However, health workers were found to have lack of adequate knowledge on basic emergency and neonatal care (BEmONC) signal function including poor knowledge and skill on newborn resuscitation. resulting in poor child health outcomes during facility-births and had poor knowledge and skill on newborn resuscitation (Lama et al., 2020). Newborn resuscitation simulation training was effective in improving clinical performance of health service providers and perinatal outcomes (Vadla, Moshiro, et al., 2022). NeoNatalie™ is a low-cost, highly portable, and realistic manikin that helps health workers learn and practice standard newborn care and resuscitation measures to better handle birth asphyxia(Laerdal helping save lives, 2022). Use of NeoNatalie, a newborn simulator for neonatal resuscitation training has improved performance of midwives and their motivation(Vadla, Mdoe, et al., 2022). There has been intervention that provided training on helping baby breathe (HBB) in large hospitals in Nepal. However, the use of simulator and training to the midwives at birthing center has not been evaluated for the effectiveness of simulator in increasing their performance and newborn health outcomes. Therefore, this study aimed to improve the performance of skilled-birth attendant in providing resuscitation to the newborn with birth asphyxia by applying simulator-based training.
Investigators
Khem Pokhrel
Dr. Khem Pokhrel, Principal Investigator, SaLiN Project
Integrated Development Foundation Nepal
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
- •Health workers, Those lack experience at least six months of working in birthing centers Those who does not qualify as skilled birth attendant (non-SBA) Those who received training already
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Skill performance of the newborn care provider
Time Frame: six months
The skill performance of the newborn care providers covering all nine components of essential newborn care. Their skills related to resuscitation procedures will be measured using skill inventory.