Effect of implementation of integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness programme on treatment seeking practices for morbidities in infants: cluster randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the effect of implementation of the Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness strategy on treatment seeking practices and on neonatal and infant morbidity.

Design

Cluster randomised trial.

Setting

Haryana, India.

Participants

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

Main outcome measures

The pre-specified outcome was the effect on treatment seeking practices. Post hoc exploratory analyses assessed morbidity, hospital admission, post-neonatal infant care, and nutritional status outcomes.

Interventions

The Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness intervention included home visits by community health workers, improved case management of sick children, a

SUBMITTER: Mazumder S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4148946 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature