Effect of implementation of Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) programme on neonatal and infant mortality: cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the Indian Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) programme, which integrates improved treatment of illness for children with home visits for newborn care, to inform its scale-up.

Design

Cluster randomised trial.

Setting

18 clusters (population 1.1 million) in Haryana, India.

Participants

29,667 births in intervention clusters and 30,813 in control clusters.

Intervention

Community health workers were trained to conduct postnatal home visits and women's group meetings; physicians, nurses, and community health workers were trained to treat or refer sick newborns and children; supply of drugs and supervision were strengthened.

Main outcome measures

Neonatal and infant mortality; newborn care practices.

SUBMITTER: Bhandari N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3309879 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature