Community initiated kangaroo mother care and early child development in low birth weight infants in India-a randomized controlled trial

• Main Authors: Sunita Taneja (Author), Bireshwar Sinha (Author), Ravi Prakash Upadhyay (Author), Sarmila Mazumder (Author), Halvor Sommerfelt (Author), Jose Martines (Author), Suresh Kumar Dalpath (Author), Rakesh Gupta (Author), Patricia Kariger (Author), Rajiv Bahl (Author), Nita Bhandari (Author), Tarun Dua (Author), for the ciKMC development study group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 8402 stable low birthweight (LBW) infants, majority being late preterm or term small for gestational age, community-initiated KMC (ciKMC) showed a significant improvement in survival. However, the effect of ciKMC on neurodevelopment is...