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

Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2002
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.
Epistemonikos ID: bc82dec15b17a297afbe3b6dd28e95c42dbc2c80
First added on: Sep 16, 2023