Essential newborn care practices among home delivered postnatal mothers with babies 0-28 days from Korogocho slums, Nairobi county
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Date
2014-11-03
Authors
Kiambati, Mugure
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
Essential newborn care is designed to improve health of newborns through a set of interventions
that should be made available for all births. Essential newborn care would reduce 70% of
neonatal deaths. ewborn deaths in Korogocho contribute 33% to Infant mortality in Korogocho
slums which is 73.1 per 1000 live births which is higher than any other region in Kenya. This
study aims at determining essential newborn care practices among women who deliver at home
with babies 0-28 days in Korogocho slums of Nairobi. A cross sectional survey will be carried
out in the Korogocho slums .. Target population will be mothers who had delivered at home from
Korogocho slums with infants 0-28 days. Purposive, simple random and snowballing sampling
methods will be used to get the desired sample size. Eligible women willing to participate in the
study will be interviewed using structured interviewer administered questionnaires. Data
collected will be analyzed by using SPSS version 17.0 statistical software. Data will be
summarized into proportions and means and tests of associations and comparisons done using
chi-square and student's t or Mann Whitney U tests respectively. The analyzed data will be
presented in tables and charts. Findings from this study will help in the development of programs
to promote culturally sensitive and acceptable change in newborn care practices