ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2021
Knowledge, attitude and practice of kangaroo mother care among mothers in the neonatal wards of a tertiary care center.
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- Assessment of early neonatal practices to prevent hypothermia ; A comparative study.F1000Research · 2024Article
- Kangaroo Mother Care Induced Serum Oxytocin Facilitates Prolactin and IL-10 Among Emergency Cesarean Mothers [Letter].Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- Experience and perceptions of healthcare providers on clinical management and care of near-miss infants: a qualitative content analysis.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Health professional assisted Kangaroo mother care practice in Ethiopian health care facilities: evidence from the 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- The efficacy of Kangaroo-Mother care to the clinical outcomes of LBW and premature infants in the first 28 days: A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Review
- A Narrative Review of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) and Its Effects on and Benefits for Low Birth Weight (LBW) Babies.Cureus · 2022Review
- Acceptability of the Kangaroo Mother Care at the University Hospital of Treichville in Côte d'Ivoire.Journal of public health in Africa · 2022Article
- Improving Skin-to-Skin Contact During the Golden Hour for Neonates ≥34 Weeks: Single-Site Quality-Improvement Initiative Study.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
- Compliance toward key elements of kangaroo mother care and its predictors among postnatal mothers with preterm and/or low birth weight newborns in southern Ethiopia, 2021: A count analysis.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
introductionapproximately 1 million children die each year due to complications of preterm birth with the major contributor to mortality being hypothermia. Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is an effective and low-cost technique which prevents neonate from hypothermia. The mother uses her body temperature to keep the infant warm thereby preventing demise from cold injury. Not much is known about the perception and practice of this simple and easy method of caring for preterm infants among post-natal mothers in Nigeria. This study aimed to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice of kangaroo mother care among mothers in the neonatal wards of a tertiary care center in Nigeria.
methodsthis study was a hospital-based descriptive cross-sectional survey of sixty mothers selected from the Neonatal ward of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba using convenient sampling technique. Data was collected with the use of a questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Frequency and percentages were presented in tables and chi-square was used to test associations between categorical variables; p-value <0.05 was considered significant.
resultsthe findings revealed that 80% of respondents had heard of kangaroo mother care with 66.6% having good knowledge. Two-thirds (65%) of the respondents had a good attitude towards the use of KMC with 71.7% feeling happy when their baby is in kangaroo position. The knowledge of mothers significantly influenced their attitude and practice of KMC, p <0.05.
conclusionthe knowledge of KMC among mothers whose babies were admitted into the newborn wards of LUTH was high and they believe that KMC is helpful to their babies and were happy practicing it.
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