Newborn Care Practices at Home among Mothers of Neonates Admitted with Sepsis

Chhetri, Bima Thapa; Bhandari, Sunita; Karna, Basant Kumar; Chaudhary, Ramanand; Yadav, Upendra

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“…This result was in line with a study by Gul et al [ 30 ], which found that a woman’s wealth status is directly related to her use of LNB. This was also in line with Chhetri et al [ 31 ], who discovered that wealth status has a role in LNB practice. Similarly, Adegun et al [ 32 ] found that wealth status was positively related to LNB in an Ibadan study.…”

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Maternal and child factors associated with late neonatal bathing practices in Nigeria: evidence from a national survey

Appiah,

Adde,

Boakye

et al. 2023

Reprod Health

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Background Twohundred and seventy out of every thousand live births died in Nigeria in 2019. These deaths were attributable to infections, complications of preterm birth, and intrapartum-related conditions. The World Health Organization recommends withholding bathing of neonates until 24 h after birth or until their vital signs become stable to prevent hypothermia. Despite the link between neonatal bathing and thermal control, the subject is understudied in Nigeria. This study aimed at investigating the factors associated with late neonatal bathing practices in Nigeria. Methods The study adopted a cross-sectional design and extracted data from the women’s file of the 2018 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey. The unit of analysis was limited to 12,972 women who had complete data for the study. We applied chi-square test of independence to ascertain the association between the outcome variable and explanatory variables. At 95% confidence interval, two logistic regression models were built with Model I consisting of only maternal factors whilst Model II contained both maternal and child factors, and results were presented in adjusted odds ratio. Results Descriptively, 12% (CI = 0.122–0.134) of the women bathed their neonates after 24 h of delivery. Inferentially, women with secondary/higher education [AOR = 1.30, CI = 1.05–1.61], the rich [AOR = 1.24, CI = 1.03–1.50], those with access to mass media [AOR = 131, CI = 1.15–1.50], women that professed other religions [AOR = 9.28, CI = 4.24–17.56], those who delivered in a health facility [AOR = 1.93, CI = 1.66–2.25], whose child was small in size at birth [AOR = 1.46, CI = 1.21–1.77] and delivered by caesarean section [AOR = 2.50, CI = 1.97–3.18] had higher odds of bathing their neonates 24 h after birth. Conclusions The proportion of women who practised late neonatal bathing was generally low. To improve the practice of late neonatal bathing, much-concerted effort should be directed to women’s education and approaches to increasing receptivity of late neonatal bathing among pregnant women through the media. The Nigerian Ministry of Health should incorporate routine counselling on the risks of bathing newborns prematurely into antenatal and postnatal care services.

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Maternal and child factors associated with late neonatal bathing practices in Nigeria: evidence from a national survey

Appiah,

Adde,

Boakye

et al. 2023

Reprod Health

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“…This result was in line with a study by Gul et al [30], which found that a woman's wealth status is directly related to her use of LNB. This was also in line with Chhetri et al [31], who discovered that wealth status has a role in LNB practice. Similarly, Adegun et al [32] found that wealth status was positively related with LNB in an Ibadan study.…”

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confidence: 89%

Maternal and child factors associated with late neonatal bathing practices in Nigeria: Evidence from a national survey

Appiah

Adde

Boakye

et al. 2022

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Background Two-hundred and seventy out of every thousand live births died in Nigeria in 2019. These deaths are attributable to infections, complications of preterm birth and intrapartum-related conditions. The World Health Organization and Save the Children recommend withholding bathing of neonates until 24 hours after birth or until their vital signs become stable to prevent hypothermia. Despite the link between neonatal bathing and thermal control, the subject is understudied in Nigeria. This study aimed at investigating the maternal and child factors associated with late neonatal bathing practices in Nigeria. Methods The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design and extracted data from the women’s file of the 2018 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (2018 NDHS). The unit of analysis was limited to 12,972 women aged 15–49 who had complete data for the study. The outcome variable for the study was “late neonatal bathing (LNB)” conceptualized as delaying bathing of newborns until 24 hours after birth. At 95% confidence interval, two logistic regression models were built with Model I consisting of only maternal factors whilst Model II contained both maternal and child factors. The results of the final model were presented as adjusted odds ratio (aOR). Results Descriptively, 12% (CI = 0.122–0.134) of the women aged 15–49 bathed their neonates after 24 hours of delivery. Inferentially, women with secondary/higher education [AOR = 1.30, CI = 1.05–1.61], the rich [AOR = 1.24, CI = 1.03–1.50], those with access to mass media [AOR = 131, CI = 1.15–1.50], women that professed other religions [AOR = 9.28, CI = 4.24–17.56], those who delivered in a health facility [AOR = 1.93, CI = 1.66–2.25], whose child was small in size at birth [AOR = 1.46, CI = 1.21–1.77] and delivered by caesarean section [AOR = 2.50, CI = 1.97–3.18] had higher odds of bathing their neonates 24 hours after birth. The likelihood to bath neonates 24 hours after birth decreased among women who were into sales [AOR = 0.71, CI = 0.52–0.97], women with parity two [AOR = 0.75, CI = 0.61–0.92] and rural residents [AOR = 0.83, CI = 0.74–0.96]. Conclusions The proportion of women aged 15 to 49 who practiced late neonatal bathing was generally low. To improve the practice of late neonatal bathing, much concerted effort should be directed to women's education and approaches of increasing receptivity of late neonatal bathing among pregnant women through the media. The Nigerian’s Ministry of Health should incorporate routine counseling on the risks of bathing newborns prematurely into ANC and PNC.

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“…In the present study, 73.6% practiced hand washing before touching the baby, 20.8 use oil to care umbilical cord, 1.6% apply Kajal in the eyes which is similar to the study conducted by Chhetri BT, et al (2014) found out that 62.5% practiced hand washing before touching the baby, 72.5% use mustard oil to care umbilical cord, 52.5% apply Kajal in the eyes [6] .…”

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A study to assess the knowledge and practice on prevention of neonatal infections among mothers in a hospital of Shillong, Meghalaya

Khatun,

Tase,

Shylla

2024

Int. J. Res. Paediatric Nurs.

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A neonate is a child who is four weeks old or less and is also known as newborn. Every minute while neonatal infections accounts for 33% of neonatal death (UNICEF). The study aimed to assess the knowledge and practice on prevention of neonatal infections among mothers. A cross sectional descriptive study was carried out using consecutive sampling technique. Data was collected from 125 mothers using self-administered structured questionnaire. Majority of the mothers had poor knowledge 66 (52.8%) on prevention of neonatal infections. While 74(59.2%) instilled breast milk on eyes, 2(1.6%) applied Kajal and 3 (2.4) used sin door and 2(1.6) still used cow-dung for prevention of umbilical infection. Association was found between knowledge score and educational qualification and occupation. The study concludes that the mothers had inadequate knowledge and also practices some of the harmful and unhygienic methods while caring their neonates.

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Newborn Care Practices at Home among Mothers of Neonates Admitted with Sepsis

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Maternal and child factors associated with late neonatal bathing practices in Nigeria: evidence from a national survey

Maternal and child factors associated with late neonatal bathing practices in Nigeria: evidence from a national survey

Maternal and child factors associated with late neonatal bathing practices in Nigeria: Evidence from a national survey

A study to assess the knowledge and practice on prevention of neonatal infections among mothers in a hospital of Shillong, Meghalaya

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