CompletedPhase 3

Community Trial of Newborn Skin and Umbilical Cord Cleansing on Neonatal Mortality in Nepal

United States, Nepal17,000 participantsStarted 2002-10

Plain-language summary

Neonatal mortality and morbidity is common in Nepal and the vast majority of women deliver babies at home without a skilled birth attendant. The purpose of this project is two-fold: 1) to evaluate whether washing a newborn child with a dilute antiseptic solution soon after birth can reduce mortality in the first 4 weeks of life and 2) to evaluate whether cleaning the umbilical cord and stump with either soap and water or an antiseptic solution for the first few days of life can reduce umbilical cord infections.

Who can participate

Age range1 Minute – 10 Days

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * All liveborn infants born in the study area Exclusion Criteria: * Newborn infants who died prior to study staff arriving to conduct the interventions

What they're measuring

neonatal mortality

umbilical cord infection

Trial details

NCT IDNCT00109616

SponsorEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Sponsor typeNIH

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

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