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Implementation at Scale and Evaluation of KMC

NCT06130488 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2500

Last updated 2023-11-14

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Summary

The goal of this quasi-experimental study design is to look at feasibility and document the process and challenges of implementing KMC at scale in district Sanghar (Sindh) and Lasbella (Balochistan)

. The main question it aims to answer are:

* Does the KMC is feasible to be implemented in rural areas?
* What is the process and challenges in implementing KMC in rural areas?
* Pregnancy surveillance is going in the secondary level care hospitals and in its catchment population. Recruitment of babies is carried who are low birth weight (less than 2000grams).
* Mothers taught to administer KMC by physician and nursing /LHV staff in the facility within first 6 hours after delivery and continue till the mother and baby are discharged by trained facility KMC management team.
* After training and administration of KMC at facility for 72 hours, the mother and baby pair discharged and followed up at home by the team including project-based data collector and respective LHWs.
* KMC Champions are in development for community mobilization and conducting sessions at village level.
* We will compare pre and post intervention change in practices at facility level and at individual level of household and assess the KMC coverage.

Conditions

  • Newborn Morbidity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

KMC

KMC implementation as per protocol

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Aga Khan University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Zulfiqar Bhutta, PhD · Aga Khan University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
30 Minutes
Max Age
42 Days
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-01-01
Primary Completion
2023-07-30
Completion
2023-07-30

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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