Trial reportPloS one2015
Generating Insights from Trends in Newborn Care Practices from Prospective Population-Based Studies: Examples from India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Worldwide prevalence of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact after vaginal birth: A systematic review.PloS one · 2018Pooled it
- Geographical inequalities in skin-to-skin contact after birth among women in Somaliland: a multilevel and spatial analysis of the 2020 survey.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Prevalence and determinants of mother and newborn skin-to-skin contact: an assessment from the 2017-18 BDHS data.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Skin-to-skin contact and early initiation of breast feeding in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study using MICS6, Bangladesh (2019) data.BMJ paediatrics open · 2023Article
- Prevalence and factors associated with skin-to-skin contact (SSC) practice: findings from a population-based cross-sectional survey in 10 selected districts of Bangladesh.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Inequalities in undiagnosed hypertension among adult Nepalese population: Evidence from a nationally representative survey.International Journal of Cardiology. Hypertension · 2020Article
- Maternal Health Service Uptake Is Associated with a Higher Skin-to-Skin Care Practice in Ethiopia: Result from a National Survey.BioMed research international · 2020Article
- Socioeconomic inequalities in newborn care during facility and home deliveries: a cross sectional analysis of data from demographic surveillance sites in rural Bangladesh, India and Nepal.International journal for equity in health · 2018Article
- The State of Essential Newborn Care by Delivery Location in Bangladesh.Maternal and child health journal · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundDelivery of essential newborn care is key to reducing neonatal mortality rates, yet coverage of protective birth practices remains incomplete and variable, with or without skilled attendance. Evidence of changes over time in newborn care provision, disaggregated by care practice and delivery type, can be used by policymakers to review efforts to reduce mortality. We examine such trends in four areas using control arm trial data. METHODS AND
findingsWe analysed data from the control arms of cluster randomised controlled trials in Bangladesh (27 553 births), eastern India (8 939), Dhanusha, Nepal (15 344) and Makwanpur, Nepal (6 765) over the period 2001-2011. For each trial, we calculated the observed proportion of attended births and the coverage of WHO essential newborn care practices by year, adjusted for clustering and stratification. To explore factors contributing to the observed trends, we then analysed expected trends due only to observed shifts in birth attendance, accounted for stratification, delivery type and statistically significant interaction terms, and examined disaggregated trends in care practice coverage by delivery type. Attended births increased over the study periods in all areas from very low rates, reaching a maximum of only 30% of deliveries. Newborn care practice trends showed marked heterogeneity within and between areas. Adjustment for stratification, birth attendance and interaction revealed that care practices could change in opposite directions over time and/or between delivery types - e.g. in Bangladesh hygienic cord-cutting and skin-to-skin contact fell in attended deliveries but not home deliveries, whereas in India birth attendant hand-washing rose for institutional deliveries but fell for home deliveries.
conclusionsCoverage of many essential newborn care practices is improving, albeit slowly and unevenly across sites and delivery type. Time trend analyses of birth patterns and essential newborn care practices can inform policy-makers about effective intervention strategies.
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