Evidence · Randomised trial
Effect of the Uganda Newborn Study on care-seeking and care practices: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.
- Allied health
- Breast milk and breastfeeding
- Comfort and nursing care
- Cord management
- Delivery room and stabilisation
- Medical
- Nursing
- Postnatal and transitional care
- Quality improvement
- Skin care
- Thermoregulation
This paper is from 2015, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
Cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural eastern Uganda assessing volunteer community health worker home visits (during pregnancy and the first week after birth) combined with health facility strengthening. Primary outcomes were coverage of essential newborn care behaviours including breastfeeding, thermal care and cord care. The intervention improved immediate and exclusive breastfeeding and delayed bathing, with smaller effects on skin-to-skin care and clean cord cutting. Findings are relevant to community newborn care and health system strengthening in low-resource settings.
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