Community health workers: A crucial role in newborn health care and survival

Aboubaker, Samira; Qazi, Shamim; Wolfheim, Cathy; Oyegoke, A.; Bahl, Rajiv

doi:10.7189/jogh.04.020302

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“…Studies conducted in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan have shown that home visits can improve coverage of key newborn care practices in the home. [20][21][22][23][24] This study result shows that the overall picture of the awareness and level of knowledge regarding the RCH services rendered has not sufficiently reached the target group. The service utilization particularly the antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization coverage have improved to a highly significant level.…”

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Knowledge of newborn care practices among caregivers attending immunization clinic at a tertiary care centre of Lucknow: a cross-sectional study

Singh¹,

Yadav²,

Choudhary³

2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Essential newborn care (ENC) provides for an opportunity to assess the infant’s growth and development and counsel mothers regarding proper newborn care. Acquainting the caregivers with knowledge pertaining to dangers signs, hygienic practices, feeding, weaning, health and nutrition including growth and behaviour of children, might affect the rearing of their children. Therefore the present study aims to study the knowledge of caregivers in relation to newborn care.Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted among the caregivers attending the immunization clinic in a tertiary care centre (King George's Medical University) in Lucknow between January- March, 2016. A pretested and structured interview questionnaire was used to collect data and analysis was done using SPSS ver 16.0.Results: In Majority (75%) of the caregivers the knowledge regarding ENC was found to be average. Only 4% of the caregivers had good knowledge of ENC. Among the variables the association of knowledge of ENC and age of the caregiver< 30 years, general caste, level of education of the caregiver of high School and above, middle socioeconomic status, female sex of the newborn, birth order of 2 or more, >4 ANC visits and new born care not discussed in the VHND being conducted in the area were found to be statistically significantly.Conclusions: On the whole, the results of our study indicated that most of the caregivers were having unsatisfactory knowledge of child care practices. The present scenario can be improved through enhancing information education and counselling activities, training of health workers and mothers focusing on newborn health care practices.

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Knowledge of newborn care practices among caregivers attending immunization clinic at a tertiary care centre of Lucknow: a cross-sectional study

Singh¹,

Yadav²,

Choudhary³

2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…Evidence till date suggests that health workers in the community can effectively deliver postnatal care through planned home visits. 9,10 These timely interventions of postnatal care can contribute towards the reduction of the existing high neonatal mortality rates (NMR). A better understanding of the existing community reach programme is needed to improve its reach.…”

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Usability and acceptability of a hypothermia monitoring device in a community setting

Mukane¹,

Gage²,

Choubey

2020

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: The present pilot study aimed to test the usability and acceptability of the hypothermia monitoring device, i.e., temp watch, among the mothers/caregivers of low birth infants (LBW) and community health workers (ASHA workers) who visited them.Methods: Eligible LBW new-borns (<2500 grams) were recruited after written informed consent from parents and were followed-up for 28 days with intermittent visits from assigned ASHA workers. The parents recorded hypothermia episodes and KMC hours in a patient diary. Feedback was taken from these mothers and ASHA workers at the end of study.Results: The weight gain at 28th day of the recruited babies was significant (p=0.01) as compared to the weight at enrolment on day 0. Among the recruited population (n=50 LBW infants), 57% of the subjects reported the device alerted for hypothermia at least once a week. All the mothers of the recruited babies thought that the temp watch device was useful for hypothermia monitoring and the alerts helped in maintaining the baby’s temperature. All ASHA workers were satisfied with the device and reported a positive behavioral change in the mothers KMC hours at the end of the study.Conclusions: The temp watch was useful in hypothermia monitoring in LBW infants in a low resource home setting. The usability and acceptability of the device was tested in mothers and ASHA workers with positive feedbacks from both populations. This suggests a need for the intro-duction of the device as a community-based intervention for hypothermia monitoring in LBW infants.

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“…This could be due to income categories not being significantly different among each other. Other studies have reported respondents with chronic diseases South East Asia Journal of Public Health 2018;8(1):10-16 [57][58][59][60][61] Trials conducted in India and Pakistan have found that evidence-based psychological treatment recommended by the World Health Organization can be delivered by peers for perinatal depression and that is cost and time effective. 62 The strengths of the study are as follows: (i) fairly large sample size; (ii) longitudinal study design specified the direction of association between the predictor and outcome variable; and (iii) respondents have been selected from across the country that make the findings more representative of the population.…”

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Identifying People with Depression: The role of ‘Self Rated Health’

Huq

Choudhury

Aziz

et al. 2019

SE Asia J. Pub. Health

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Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. However, it is under recognized and undertreated. Self-rated health is a one-item question that has been used for population health monitoring. It was aimed to examine the prospect of using ‘self-rated health’ (SRH) in identifying people with depression among adult community-based population in Bangladesh over a one-year period controlling for socio-demographic, chronic diseases and symptoms, physical disability, smoking, and life events. We examined data from 3455 participants aged 18 years and above who participated in the 2015 January and 2016 January Health and Socio-Economic Survey of Independent University, Bangladesh. Using multiple logistic regressions, depression at baseline was examined to predict self-rated health at one-year follow-up adjusting for socio-demographic variables, chronic diseases, risk behaviors, and life events. Respondents with depression at baseline had 35% higher odds of reporting poor SRH in the follow-up round compared to those with no depression (OR=1.35, 95% CI=1.03 1.78, P<0.03). SRH may be used by community health workers as a preliminary indicator to identify people who may have depression followed by further screening and management for depression. South East Asia Journal of Public Health Vol.8(1) 2018: 10-16

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Community health workers: A crucial role in newborn health care and survival

Cited by 45 publications

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Knowledge of newborn care practices among caregivers attending immunization clinic at a tertiary care centre of Lucknow: a cross-sectional study

Knowledge of newborn care practices among caregivers attending immunization clinic at a tertiary care centre of Lucknow: a cross-sectional study

Usability and acceptability of a hypothermia monitoring device in a community setting

Identifying People with Depression: The role of ‘Self Rated Health’

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