Impact of community-based behaviour-change management on perceived neonatal morbidity: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Shivgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 286-291

  Willis, Jeffrey R ^a   Kumar, Vishwajeet ^a,b,c   Mohanty, Saroj ^b   Singh, Vivek ^b   Kumar, Aarti ^b,c   Singh, Jai V ^b   Misra, Rajendra P ^b   Awasthi, Shally ^b   Singh, Pramod ^b   Gupta, Amit ^b   Baqui, Abdullah H ^a   Santosham, Mathuram ^a   Darmstadt, Gary L ^a   Ahuja, R C ^d   Bhandari, Mahendra ^d   Black, Robert E ^d   Malik, G K ^d   Mehrotra, Hina ^d   Mitra, M K ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Community Empowerment Lab ^*  (India)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Behavior change; Developing country; Intervention study; Morbidity; Newborn

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOTHERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERCEPTION; PREGNANCY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84864930717     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmr097     Document Type: Article

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