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Effectiveness of early essential newborn care implementation in four counties of western China
BACKGROUND: Neonatal survival is a public health concern globally. However, the regional disparity in neonatal mortality between rural counties of western China and urban areas of eastern provinces remains high. Early essential newborn care (EENC), recommended by World Health Organization, refers to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9494779/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36131341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08570-6 |
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author | Wang, Chenran Lin, Yun Zhang, Hanxiyue Yang, Ge Tang, Kun Tian, Xiaobo Huang, Xiaona Xu, Tao |
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description | BACKGROUND: Neonatal survival is a public health concern globally. However, the regional disparity in neonatal mortality between rural counties of western China and urban areas of eastern provinces remains high. Early essential newborn care (EENC), recommended by World Health Organization, refers to a set of cost-effective interventions to improve neonatal health and development outcomes. In this study, we aimed to explore the effectiveness of EENC implementation in four counties of western China. METHODS: Pre- and post-intervention investigations were conducted in four selected EENC intervention counties and four control counties of four western provinces of China, from June to August 2017 and from December 2020 to April 2021 respectively. A mixed quantitative and qualitative approach was used for data collection and analysis. Data on the coverage of EENC practices were collected via a post-intervention face-to-face questionnaire survey with postpartum mothers before hospital discharge. Hospital-reported data on neonatal health indicators were obtained through mail surveys in both investigations. We also performed semi-structured interviews with policymakers, health staff and postpartum mothers to understand their perceptions about the usefulness of EENC implementation. RESULTS: Overall, 599 mother-newborn pairs in the intervention group and 699 pairs in the control group participated in the post-intervention survey. Controlling for the confounding factor of province, the proportion of newborns receiving EENC interventions was higher in the intervention group than in the control group (P < 0.05). Intervention groups in four provinces had higher coverage of: any skin-to-skin contact (99.50% vs. 49.07%); early breastfeeding initiation (within 60 min of birth) (90.84% vs. 80.35%); no medicine applied to the umbilical cord (98.50% vs. 9.73%); routine eye care (93.16% vs. 8.73%); and vitamin K(1) administration (98.33% vs. 88.98%). EENC implementation was associated with decreased risk of neonatal diarrhea (OR: 0.326, 95% CI: 0.123, 0.865) and eye infection (OR: 0.147, 95% CI: 0.045, 0.483). Policymakers, health staff and postpartum mothers expressed satisfaction with the EENC interventions, noting a willingness among staff and policymakers to implement and sustain these interventions; the promotion of these interventions within hospital policy; the positive emotions experienced by postpartum mothers; perceived improvements in health; and improvements in support for health workers. CONCLUSION: EENC-recommended core practices (except kangaroo mother care) have been successfully introduced in pilot hospitals. The efficacy of EENC implementation should be highly recognized to accelerate the progress towards its national roll out. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-022-08570-6. |
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spelling | pubmed-94947792022-09-23 Effectiveness of early essential newborn care implementation in four counties of western China Wang, Chenran Lin, Yun Zhang, Hanxiyue Yang, Ge Tang, Kun Tian, Xiaobo Huang, Xiaona Xu, Tao BMC Health Serv Res Research BACKGROUND: Neonatal survival is a public health concern globally. However, the regional disparity in neonatal mortality between rural counties of western China and urban areas of eastern provinces remains high. Early essential newborn care (EENC), recommended by World Health Organization, refers to a set of cost-effective interventions to improve neonatal health and development outcomes. In this study, we aimed to explore the effectiveness of EENC implementation in four counties of western China. METHODS: Pre- and post-intervention investigations were conducted in four selected EENC intervention counties and four control counties of four western provinces of China, from June to August 2017 and from December 2020 to April 2021 respectively. A mixed quantitative and qualitative approach was used for data collection and analysis. Data on the coverage of EENC practices were collected via a post-intervention face-to-face questionnaire survey with postpartum mothers before hospital discharge. Hospital-reported data on neonatal health indicators were obtained through mail surveys in both investigations. We also performed semi-structured interviews with policymakers, health staff and postpartum mothers to understand their perceptions about the usefulness of EENC implementation. RESULTS: Overall, 599 mother-newborn pairs in the intervention group and 699 pairs in the control group participated in the post-intervention survey. Controlling for the confounding factor of province, the proportion of newborns receiving EENC interventions was higher in the intervention group than in the control group (P < 0.05). Intervention groups in four provinces had higher coverage of: any skin-to-skin contact (99.50% vs. 49.07%); early breastfeeding initiation (within 60 min of birth) (90.84% vs. 80.35%); no medicine applied to the umbilical cord (98.50% vs. 9.73%); routine eye care (93.16% vs. 8.73%); and vitamin K(1) administration (98.33% vs. 88.98%). EENC implementation was associated with decreased risk of neonatal diarrhea (OR: 0.326, 95% CI: 0.123, 0.865) and eye infection (OR: 0.147, 95% CI: 0.045, 0.483). Policymakers, health staff and postpartum mothers expressed satisfaction with the EENC interventions, noting a willingness among staff and policymakers to implement and sustain these interventions; the promotion of these interventions within hospital policy; the positive emotions experienced by postpartum mothers; perceived improvements in health; and improvements in support for health workers. CONCLUSION: EENC-recommended core practices (except kangaroo mother care) have been successfully introduced in pilot hospitals. The efficacy of EENC implementation should be highly recognized to accelerate the progress towards its national roll out. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-022-08570-6. BioMed Central 2022-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9494779/ /pubmed/36131341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08570-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Wang, Chenran Lin, Yun Zhang, Hanxiyue Yang, Ge Tang, Kun Tian, Xiaobo Huang, Xiaona Xu, Tao Effectiveness of early essential newborn care implementation in four counties of western China |
title | Effectiveness of early essential newborn care implementation in four counties of western China |
title_full | Effectiveness of early essential newborn care implementation in four counties of western China |
title_fullStr | Effectiveness of early essential newborn care implementation in four counties of western China |
title_full_unstemmed | Effectiveness of early essential newborn care implementation in four counties of western China |
title_short | Effectiveness of early essential newborn care implementation in four counties of western China |
title_sort | effectiveness of early essential newborn care implementation in four counties of western china |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9494779/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36131341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08570-6 |
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