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

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Neonatal Mortality

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00109616

Run by

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

People needed

17000

Starts

2002-10-01

Expected to finish

2006-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-05-01

Who can join

Age: any, up to 0. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All liveborn infants born in the study area

You may not qualify if…

• Newborn infants who died prior to study staff arriving to conduct the interventions

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Nepal Nutrition Intervention Project-Sarlahi — Kathmandu and Sarlahi District, Nepal

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