NCT07231432

Promoting Kangaroo Care for Preterm or Low Birthweight Infants in Rural India

Promoting Community-based Kangaroo Care Among Mothers of Low Birth Weight Infants in Rural India

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 190 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to develop ways to help mothers of preterm or low birth weight infants do Kangaroo Care at home after discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in rural India.

Detailed description

This study aims to create and evaluate interventions to support the practice of Kangaroo Care among mothers of preterm or low birth weight infants in the community-seeing after discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unity. Using a mixed methods and Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) design-based trial, we aim to: Aim 1: Use community-engaged research and qualitative methods to refine up to four individual candidate interventions to overcome barriers to community-based Kangaroo Care, Aim 2: Pilot individual candidate interventions to assess implementation outcomes and define optimization criterion tailored for the community setting, Aim 3: Conduct a MOST design-based optimization trial to develop a community-informed, multicomponent intervention to promote community-based Kangaroo Care

Conditions

• Preterm Birth
• Skin to Skin Contact
• Low Birth Weight
• Kangaroo Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Behavioral Interventions	The interventions have not been determined yet. The intervention aspect of the study is not active at this time. This information will be updated at a later time to include more details.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-06-18
• Primary completion: 2028-08-13
• Completion: 2028-12-01
• First posted: 2025-11-17
• Last updated: 2025-11-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States