NCT00518856

Lufwanyama Neonatal Survival Project

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3,559 (actual)
• Sponsor: Boston University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

We seek to determine whether we can reduce day 28 mortality in Zambian newborns by training traditional birth attendants a modified version of the neonatal resuscitation protocol (NRP) and by improving their abiltiy to identify sepsis and initiate antibiotics in the field.

Detailed description

This is a cluster randomized trial of the impact of providing additional training and supplies to traditional birth attendants in a rural setting in Zambia. 120 TBAs are randomized into intervention/control. Intervention TBAs receive NRP training, supplies for neonatal resuscitation, receiving blankets for thermoregulation, and amoxicillin tablets. Control TBAs continue according to prior standard of care. Primary outcome is mortality at 28 days life as a proportion of births attended by TBAs in each study arm.

Conditions

• Mortality

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Neonatal resuscitation protocol	training in neonatal resuscitation and sepsis identification early treatment
OTHER	Standard of care	continued with current standard of care for birth attendants

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-09-01
• Primary completion: 2008-09-01
• Completion: 2009-07-01
• First posted: 2007-08-21
• Last updated: 2011-03-31