BabyGel Pilot: the provision of alcohol handgel to postpartum mothers in Mbale, Eastern Uganda to prevent neonatal infective morbidity in the home.

Conditions

Reduction in infant (>3 months) sepsis thereby leading to a possible reduction in infant morbidity and mortality Infections and Infestations

Ditai J, Abeso J, Odeke NM, Mobbs N, Dusabe-Richards J, Mudoola M, Carrol ED, Olupot-Olupot P, Storr J, Medina-Lara A, Gladstone M, Faragher EB, Weeks AD.

2019-03-266 citations

10.1186/s40814-019-0432-7

"We have to clean ourselves to ensure that our children are healthy and beautiful": findings from a qualitative assessment of a hand hygiene poster in rural Uganda.

Harrison BL, Ogara C, Gladstone M, Carrol ED, Dusabe-Richards J, Medina-Lara A, Ditai J, Weeks AD.

2019-01-0342 citations

10.1186/s12889-018-6343-3

Optimising informed consent for participants in a randomised controlled trial in rural Uganda: a comparative prospective cohort mixed-methods study.

Ditai J, Kanyago J, Nambozo MR, Odeke NM, Abeso J, Dusabe-Richards J, Olupot-Olupot P, Carrol ED, Medina-Lara A, Gladstone M, Storr J, Faragher B, Weeks AD.

2018-12-227 citations

10.1186/s13063-018-3030-8

Preventing neonatal sepsis in rural Uganda: a cross-over study comparing the tolerance and acceptability of three alcohol-based hand rub formulations

James Ditai, M Mudoola, Melissa Gladstone, Julian Abeso, J. Dusabe-Richards et al. (12 authors)

BMC Public Health2018-11-198 citations

10.1186/s12889-018-6201-3

Interventions

A pilot study of a cluster randomised trial of the provision of alcohol handgel to postpartum mothers to prevent neonatal infective morbidity in the home. This pilot study (work stream 1) will be used

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

Female

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Women with an estimated gestation of over 34 weeks 2. Reside in the participating villages. The gestation age will be determined by the Last Normal Menstruation period (LNMP), and or Ultra sound scan.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Women will be excluded from the study if they 1. Are temporary resident (visitors) in one of the Mbale villages 2. Plan to relocate to distant places (outside of the Mbale District) within 3 months of childbirth

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1. Infant sepsis (using the Young Infant Clinical Signs Study Group (YICSSG) criteria 2. Sepsis death in the first 90 days of life (assessed using verbal autopsy)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Neonatal: Physician diagnosed infant infection, Microbiologically confirmed infant infection rate in the first 90 days of life (blood culture and cerebrospinal fluid), Infant mortality at 24hrs, 7 days, 4 weeks, and 3 months of life, Individual infant infections, General: fever, clinical jaundice, Infant weight and height at 3 months Maternal: Gel Hand hygiene compliance, frequency of other hand washing; Maternal postnatal pelvic infection, other infections and satisfaction.	—

Measure

Time frame

Neonatal: Physician diagnosed infant infection, Microbiologically confirmed infant infection rate in the first 90 days of life (blood culture and cerebrospinal fluid), Infant mortality at 24hrs, 7 days, 4 weeks, and 3 months of life, Individual infant infections, General: fever, clinical jaundice, Infant weight and height at 3 months Maternal: Gel Hand hygiene compliance, frequency of other hand washing; Maternal postnatal pelvic infection, other infections and satisfaction.

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Countries

Uganda, Uruguay

Outcome results

None listed