Effect of home-based counselling on newborn care practices in southern tanzania one year after implementation: A cluster-randomised controlled trial

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Penfold, Suzanne ^a   Manzi, Fatuma ^b   Mkumbo, Elibariki ^b   Temu, Silas ^b   Jaribu, Jennie ^a,b,d,e   Shamba, Donat D ^b   Mshinda, Hassan ^c   Cousens, Simon ^a   Marchant, Tanya ^a   Tanner, Marcel ^d,e   Schellenberg, David ^a   Armstrong Schellenberg, Joanna ^a  

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

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology   (Tanzania)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Community health workers; Delivery of health care; Evaluation studies; Newborn; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TANZANIA; VOLUNTEER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TANZANIA; VOLUNTEERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904518658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-14-187     Document Type: Article

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