Neonatal mortality
Conditions
Interventions
The intervention team is not masked to allocation. The data collection team and analyses are masked to allocation. This is evaluation is led at two centres: Ekjut (India) and University College London
Sponsors
University College London
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Female
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Two types of respondents will be eligible to participate in the questionnaire survey that will be administered in the study area: 1. Women aged 15 and above residing in the study area and who have delivered an infant, or experienced a stillbirth or neonatal death between the 1st March 2017 and 30th August 2019 2. Relatives of women who have died as a result of complications of pregnancy and childbirth (maternal deaths) during the study period
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Women who are not found within 120 days of being identified as having delivered an infant, and are therefore considered migrated
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Neonatal mortality measured via a questionnaire survey for all women who gave birth in the study areas during the study period (1st March 2017-30th August 2017 for the baseline period, and 1st September 2017-30th August 2019 for the evaluation period) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| All secondary outcomes are measured via a questionnaire survey for all women who gave birth in the study areas between 1st March 2017 and 30th August 2019. They include: 1. Stillbirth rate (per 1000 births) 2. Perinatal deaths (per 1000 births) 3. Neonatal mortality among mothers in the most socio-economically deprived, defined as mothers belonging to the two poorest wealth quintiles and who cannot read 4. Maternal deaths 5, % Mothers who received three ANC consultations by a skilled provider 6. % Mothers who made plans for birth (transport, location, money) in pregnancy 7. % Mothers who sought skilled care for a problem in pregnancy 8. % Births with a skilled attendant 9. % Births in a health facility 10. % Home births where a clean delivery kit was used 11. % Infants wiped within 30 mins of birth 12. % Infants wrapped within 30 mins of birth 13. % Infants not given a bath in 1st 24 hours 14. % Infants given breastmilk within one hour 15. % Infants exclusively breastfed 16. % Mothers visited by ASHA three times in the first week 17. % Infants for whom skilled care is sought for a newborn health problems 18. % Mothers who receive a postpartum check-up from a skilled provider | — |
Countries
England, India, United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed