NEWHINTS cluster randomised trial to evaluate the impact on neonatal mortality in rural Ghana of routine home visits to provide a package of essential newborn care interventions in the third trimester of pregnancy and the first week of life: Trial protocol

Trials

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kirkwood, Betty R ^a   Manu, Alexander ^b   Tawiah Agyemang, Charlotte ^b   ten Asbroek, Guus ^a   Gyan, Thomas ^b   Weobong, Benedict ^b   Lewandowski, R Eric ^c   Soremekun, Seyi ^a   Danso, Samuel ^b   Pitt, Catherine ^a   Hanson, Kara ^a   Owusu Agyei, Seth ^a,b   Hill, Zelee ^d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b KINTAMPO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GHANA; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANT WOMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOME DELIVERY; INFANT MORTALITY; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RURAL HEALTH CARE;

CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PRENATAL CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 77954057124     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-11-58     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Lawn JE, Cousens S, Zupan J. 4 million neonatal deaths: when? Where? Why?. Lancet 2005, 365(9462):891-900. 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)71048-5, 15752534.
2. Bhutta ZA, Darmstadt GL, Hasan BS, Haws RA. Community-based interventions for improving perinatal and neonatal health outcomes in developing countries: a review of the evidence. Pediatrics 2005, 115(2 Suppl):519-617.
3. Darmstadt GL, Bhutta ZA, Cousens S, Adam T, Walker N, de Bernis L. Evidence-based, cost-effective interventions: how many newborn babies can we save?. Lancet 2005, 365(9463):977-88. 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)71088-6, 15767001.
4. WHO-UNICEF Joint Statement Home visits for the newborn child: a strategy to improve survival: World Health Organization. 2009, Accessed 13 May 2010., WHO-UNICEF Joint Statement., http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2009/WHO_FCH_CAH_09.02_eng.pdf
5. Bang AT, Bang RA, Baitule SB, Reddy MH, Deshmukh MD. Effect of home-based neonatal care and management of sepsis on neonatal mortality: field trial in rural India. Lancet 1999, 354(9194):1955-61. 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)03046-9, 10622298.
6. Baqui AH, El-Arifeen S, Darmstadt GL, Ahmed S, Williams EK, Seraji HR, et al. Effect of community-based newborn-care intervention package implemented through two service-delivery strategies in Sylhet district, Bangladesh: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2008, 371(9628):1936-44. 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60835-1, 18539225.
7. Kumar V, Mohanty S, Kumar A, Misra RP, Santosham M, Awasthi S, et al. Effect of community-based behaviour change management on neonatal mortality in Shivgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2008, 372(9644):1151-62. 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61483-X, 18926277.
8. Bhutta ZA, Memon ZA, Soofi S, Salat MS, Cousens S, Martines J. Implementing community-based perinatal care: results from a pilot study in rural Pakistan. Bull World Health Organ 2008, 86(6):452-9. 10.2471/BLT.07.045849, 2647462, 18568274.
9. Manandhar DS, Osrin D, Shrestha BP, Mesko N, Morrison J, Tumbahangphe KM, et al. Effect of a participatory intervention with women's groups on birth outcomes in Nepal: cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2004, 364(9438):970-9. 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17021-9, 15364188.
10. O'Rourke KH-GL, Seoane G. Impact of community organisation on perinatal outcomes in rural Bolivia. Rev Panam Salud Publication/Pan Am Public Health 1998, 3(1):9-14.
11. AbouZahr C, Wardlaw T. Maternal mortality at the end of a decade: signs of progress?. Bull World Health Organ 2001, 79(6):561-8. 2566451, 11436479.
12. Edmond KM, Quigley MA, Zandoh C, Danso S, Hurt C, Owusu Agyei S, et al. Aetiology of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in rural Ghana: implications for health programming in developing countries. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2008, 22(5):430-7. 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2008.00961.x, 18782251.
13. Hill Z, Manu A, Tawiah-Agyemang C, Gyan T, Turner K, Weobong B, et al. How did formative research inform the development of a home-based neonatal care intervention in rural Ghana?. J Perinatol 2008, 28(Suppl 2):S38-45. 10.1038/jp.2008.172, 19057567.
14. Kirkwood BR, Sterne JAC. Essential medical statistics. 2003, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Science, 2.
15. Kirkwood BR, Hurt L, Amenga-Etego S, Tawiah C, Zandoh C, Danso S, et al. Effect of vitamin A supplementation in women of reproductive age on maternal survival in Ghana (ObaapaVitA): a cluster-randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2010, 375(9726):1640-9. 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60311-X, 20435345.
16. Hayes RJ, Moulton LH. Cluster randomised trials. 2009, Boca Raton: CRC Press.
17. Armitage P, Berry G, Matthews JNS. Statistical methods in medical research. 2001, Malden, MA: Blackwell Science, 4.