Enhancing the Survival of Low Birth Weight Infants in Low-Resource Settings

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

328

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

July 1, 2025

Primary Completion Date

August 30, 2026

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2026

Conditions
Low BirthweightPretermKangaroo Mother Care
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Peer Support and Baby Box

The intervention consists of five one-on-one peer support sessions and a Baby Box consisting of a woolen hat and socks for infant warmth, a cloth wrap to position the baby securely for skin-to-skin contact and improve comfort, a bar of soap for hygiene, and a real-time continuous temperature monitoring device for hypothermia detection

Trial Locations (2)

Unknown

RECRUITING

Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra

RECRUITING

Sunyani Regional Teaching Hospital, Sunyani

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

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

NIH

collaborator

Center for Learning and Childhood Development Ghana

UNKNOWN

collaborator

Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

OTHER

collaborator

Sunyani Teaching Hospital, Sunyani, Ghana

UNKNOWN

lead

University of South Carolina

OTHER