Saifon Chawanpaiboon, Joshua P. Vogel, Ann‐Beth Moller, Pisake Lumbiganon et al.
BACKGROUND: Preterm birth is the leading cause of death in children younger than 5 years worldwide. Although preterm survival rates have increased in high-income countries, preterm newborns still die because of a lack of adequate newborn care in many low-income and middle-income countries. We estima...
Anne CC Lee, Joanne Katz, Hannah Blencowe, Simon Cousens et al.
BACKGROUND: National estimates for the numbers of babies born small for gestational age and the comorbidity with preterm birth are unavailable. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of term and preterm babies born small for gestational age (term-SGA and preterm-SGA), and the relation to low birthweigh...
Sudhin Thayyil, Stuti Pant, Paolo Montaldo, Deepika Shukla et al.
BACKGROUND: Although therapeutic hypothermia reduces death or disability after neonatal encephalopathy in high-income countries, its safety and efficacy in low-income and middle-income countries is unclear. We aimed to examine whether therapeutic hypothermia alongside optimal supportive intensive ca...
KH Nyqvist, GC Anderson, Nils Bergman, Adriano Cattaneo et al.
UNLABELLED: The hallmark of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is the kangaroo position: the infant is cared for skin-to-skin vertically between the mother's breasts and below her clothes, 24 h/day, with father/substitute(s) participating as KMC providers. Intermittent KMC (for short periods once or a few t...
Jena Hamadani, Fahmida Tofail, A Hilaly, Syed Nazmul Huda et al.
Poor stimulation in the home is one of the main factors affecting the development of children living in poverty. The family care indicators (FCIs) were developed to measure home stimulation in large populations and were derived from the Home Observations for Measurement of the Environment (HOME). Th...
Jena Hamadani, Syed Nazmul Huda, Fahmida Khatun, Sally Grantham‐McGregor
Undernutrition in early childhood is associated with poor mental development and affects 45% of children in Bangladesh. Although limited evidence shows that psychosocial stimulation can reduce the deficits, no such interventions have been reported from Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition...
Maya Kohli-Lynch, Neal Russell, Anna C. Seale, Ziyaad Dangor et al.
BACKGROUND: Survivors of infant group B streptococcal (GBS) disease are at risk of neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI), a burden not previously systematically quantified. This is the 10th of 11 articles estimating the burden of GBS disease. Here we aimed to estimate NDI in survivors of infant GBS di...
Gary L. Darmstadt, Samir K. Saha, ASM Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, MAK Azad Chowdhury et al.
Background Infections and complications of prematurity are main causes of neonatal mortality. Very low birthweight premature infants have compromised skin barrier function, and are at especially high risk for serious infections and mortality. Our aim was to ascertain whether topical application of e...
Gulam Khandaker, Mohammad Muhit, Tasneem Karim, Hayley Smithers‐Sheedy et al.
AIM: To examine the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and risk factors of cerebral palsy (CP) in children in Bangladesh. METHOD: The Bangladesh CP Register is an ongoing population-based surveillance database of children with CP from a geographically defined area in Bangladesh. Cases were define...
Shams El Arifeen, Lauren S. Blum, Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, E. Chowdhury et al.
Background We report the preliminary findings from a continuing cluster randomised evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy in Bangladesh. Methods 20 first-level outpatient facilities in the Matlab sub-district and their catchment areas were randomised to either I...
Trudy Wijnhoven, Mercedes de Onís, Adelheid W. Onyango, Tracey Wang et al.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Multicentre Growth Reference (MGRS) data management protocol was designed to create and manage a large data bank of information collected from multiple sites over a period of several years. Data collection and processing instruments were prepared centrally and use...
Frances E. Aboud
Reaz Mobarak
OBJECTIVE: To identify the stress experienced by mothers of young children with cerebral palsy in Bangladesh and to determine predictive factors. METHODS: We recruited 91 mothers of children with cerebral palsy ages 1.5 to 5 years as they sought services at an urban and a rural center for their chil...
Israt Jahan, Mohammad Muhit, Denny Hardianto, Francis Laryea et al.
AIM: To describe the epidemiology of cerebral palsy (CP) in children from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) using data from the Global Low- and Middle-Income Country CP register (GLM-CPR). METHOD: The GLM-CPR is a multi-country initiative that combines and compares data from children with CP ...
Syed Moshfiqur Rahman, Nabeel Ashraf Ali, Larissa Jennings, M. Habibur R. Seraji et al.
BACKGROUND: Well-trained and highly motivated community health workers (CHWs) are critical for delivery of many community-based newborn care interventions. High rates of CHW attrition undermine programme effectiveness and potential for implementation at scale. We investigated reasons for high rates ...