Growth Faltering in Very Low Birth Weight Babies Discharged from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Delhi.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 50
- 试验地点
- 1
研究概览
简要总结
Primary Purpose The purpose of this protocol is to assess the proportion of very low birth weight babies discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Lok Nayak Hospital in Delhi who show growth faltering by five months of age. The study also aims to identify maternal socioeconomic environmental and health related factors along with caregiver knowledge attitudes and practices that influence post discharge growth outcomes.
Study Hypothesis A considerable number of very low birth weight infants will experience growth faltering at five months after discharge and this faltering will be linked to modifiable community based factors such as feeding practices health seeking behavior and availability of home based newborn care services.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 0.00 Day(s) 至 5.00 Month(s)（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •The study included very low birth weight (VLBW) babies, defined as those with a birth weight of less than 1500 grams, who were admitted to or discharged from Lok Nayak Hospital in Delhi, regardless of their gestational age.
- •Eligible participants were required to reside within approximately 10 kilometers of the hospital and to remain in the study area or within Delhi for at least six months during their postnatal period.
排除标准
- 未提供
研究者
DR PRIYA SINGH
Maulana Azad Medical College