Lower mortality is observed among low birth weight young infants who have received home-based care by female community health volunteers in rural Nepal

There has been little success in attempts to reduce the proportion of births with low birth weight (LBW). However, deaths associated with LBW may be prevented with extra attention to warmth, feeding, and prevention or early treatment of infections. There are few studies on this in Nepal and in many...

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Published in:BMC pregnancy and childbirth 2017-07, Vol.17 (1), p.218-218, Article 218
Main Authors: Neupane, Dinesh, Dawson, Penny, Houston, Robin, Dhakal, Liladhar, Sharma, Jaganath, Gargi, K C, Lagos, Christina, Khanal, Vishnu, Mishra, Shiva Raj, Kallestrup, Per
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Language:English
Subjects:
Babies
Bacterial infections
Birth weight
Cohort Studies
Community Health Workers
Developing countries
Fatalities
Female
Health facilities
Home Care Services - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Illnesses
Infant
Infant Mortality
Infant, Low Birth Weight
Infant, Newborn
Infections
Intervention
LDCs
Low birth weight
Male
Mortality
Mothers
Nepal
Newborn
Newborn babies
Pediatrics
Premature birth
Prenatal care
Rural areas
Rural Health Services - statistics & numerical data
Sepsis
Towns
Volunteers - statistics & numerical data
Womens health
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Summary:There has been little success in attempts to reduce the proportion of births with low birth weight (LBW). However, deaths associated with LBW may be prevented with extra attention to warmth, feeding, and prevention or early treatment of infections. There are few studies on this in Nepal and in many other developing countries. This is a cohort study to evaluate the risk of deaths among LBW infants who received FCHV follow up visit for home-based care compared to those who did not receive in Rural Nepal. A cohort study design was used with data from the Morang Innovative Neonatal Intervention (MINI) program in Nepal. Relative Risk (RR) is calculated to compare LBW neonates who received FCHV follow up visit as compared to LBW neonates who did not receive visit. Out of 51,853 newborn infants recorded in the MINI database, 2229 LBW neonates were included in the analysis. The proportion of deaths among those who received FCHV follow up visit and those who did not receive were 2% (95% CI: 1%; 2%) and 11% (95% CI: 6%; 18%) respectively(P 
ISSN:1471-2393
1471-2393
DOI:10.1186/s12884-017-1355-z