ArticleBMC pregnancy and childbirth2025
Newborn postnatal care: gap in contact and effective coverage and discrepancy in response in Ethiopia.
Article in BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundAccess to quality postnatal care for newborns is crucial to eliminating preventable neonatal deaths. While some studies have examined contact coverage, there is limited evidence on effective (quality-adjusted) coverage. This study aimed to evaluate the gaps between contact and effective coverage, as well as discrepancies between reported newborn postnatal checks and the interventions received.
methodsThe data were obtained from the Ethiopian Mini-Demography and Health Survey 2019, and a weighted sample of 2,105 women aged 15 to 49 who had given birth within the two years prior to the survey was included. A multivariable regression analysis was performed to identify factors associated with contact coverage and effective coverage.
resultsContact coverage of newborn postnatal care was 34.8%, while effective coverage was 10.4%. The study found that geographical region, antenatal care contact, and place of delivery were significantly associated with both contact and effective coverage. Additionally, household wealth status was significantly associated with contact coverage, while age and educational status were associated with effective coverage. The study also revealed a discrepancy between the reported postnatal checks and the actual interventions provided. The percentages of women who reported that a healthcare worker provided breastfeeding counseling, observed breastfeeding, checked the umbilical cord, measured temperature, and counseled on newborn danger signs but answered “no” to having a newborn postnatal check were 15.4%, 12.7%, 7.5%, 7.3%, and 6.6%, respectively.
conclusionsThis study identified a significant gap between contact and effective coverage, underscoring the need to strengthen access to quality care. Additionally, a notable discrepancy was found between reported postnatal checks and the actual care received, emphasizing the importance of strengthening data quality and validation mechanisms.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.