Delivery, immediate newborn and cord care practices in Pemba Tanzania: a qualitative study of community, hospital staff and community level care providers for knowledge, attitudes, belief systems and practices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Deaths during the neonatal period account for almost two-thirds of all deaths in the first year of life and 40 percent of deaths before the age of five. Most of these deaths could be prevented through proven cost-effective interventions. Although there are some recent data from sub-Saharan Africa, but there is paucity of qualitative data from Zanzibar and cord care practices data from most of East Africa. We undertook a qualitative study in Pemba Island as a pilot to explore the attitudes, beliefs and practices of the community and health workers related to delivery, newborn and cord care with the potential to inform the main chlorhexidine (CHX) trial.

Methods

80 in-depth interviews (IDI) and 11 focus group discussions (FGD) involving mothers, grandmothers, father

SUBMITTER: Dhingra U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4049503 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature