Effect of immediate Kangaroo Mother Care on neonatal mortality for mothers and babies

Not Applicable

• Conditions: low birth weight; Reproductive Health and Childbirth - Complications of newborn

• Registration Number: ACTRN12618001880235
• Lead Sponsor: World Health Organization

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-11-19
• Study Completion: 2020-02-19
• Last Update Posted: 12 April 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Stopped early
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 3211

Inclusion Criteria

All mothers and their newborn babies born alive in the participating hospitals, with birth weight between 1.0 kg to less then 1.8 kg, regardless of their gestational age.

Exclusion Criteria

Among those who meet inclusion criteria, the following will be excluded:
(i) the mother is younger than 15 years of age
(ii) the mother (or her guardian in case mother is a minor aged 15-17
years) is unable or unwilling to provide consent;
(iii) the mother is unlikely to be able to provide KMC for the first 3
days after birth, e.g. she has eclampsia, shock or has undergone
major surgery;
(iv) the baby is unable to breathe spontaneously within 1 hour of
birth;
(v) multiple pregnancy: triplets or more;
(vi) the baby has a congenital malformation that interferes with the
intervention, or the intervention interferes with the required care for
the congenital malformation;
(vii) the place of residence is not a part of the defined study area (the
study area will be defined to make 28-day follow up home visit
feasible)
(viii) If for any reason the mother baby pair cannot be enrolled within
2 hours of birth of the baby.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Mortality between enrolment and 72 hours of age[Enrolment to 72 hours of age];Mortality between enrolment and 28 days of age.[Enrolment to 28 days of age]