Lessons From a Behavior Change Intervention to Improve Provider-Parent Partnerships and Care for Hospitalized Newborns and Young Children in Kenya.

ABSTRACT: Enhancing respectful, responsive, integrative, and nurturing care for hospitalized newborns and young children (aged 0-24 months) is globally recognized but under-researched in low- and middle-income countries. Responsive, family-centered interventions target providers and parents and emphasize partnership in caring roles. From February 2020 to August 2021, we engaged in a participatory co-creation process with parents, providers, and newborn and child health stakeholders in Kenya to develop a comprehensive provider behavior change intervention and implemented it across 5 hospitals in Nairobi and Bungoma counties in Kenya. The multifaceted intervention included a 7-module orientation, feedback meetings, job aids, and psychosocial support-leveraging in-person and remote modalities-for provi

SUBMITTER: Warren CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10698236 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature