Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) in hospitals is a cost effective and efficacious intervention. In institutional deliveries, the duration of facility stay is often short. In LMICs, a substantial proportion of deliveries still occur at home and access to health care services is limited. In these ...
Although hospitals have a balanced visiting policy for father and mother, the father's role is often downplayed. It is common for parents to report that nurses and health personnel reduce their role in caring for the baby by encouraging only the mothers to take care of the touching, the ...
(2015). The effect of Kangaroo Mother care on Neonatal outcomes in Iranian hospitals: A review. Journal Pediatrics Review, 3(1), 1–9. (Open in a new window)Web of Science ®(Open in a new window)Google Scholar Stern, M., Karraker, K., Mclntosh, B., Moritzen, S., & Olexa,...
Kangaroo mother care (KMC) was developed in 1978 in Colombia by the duo of Rey and Martinez in order to cope with the overcrowding, recurrent nosocomial infections and scarcity of resources in hospitals caring for low birth weight (LBW) infants. Currently, this method of care consists of ...
Kangaroo mother care for low birthweight infants: a randomized controlled trial in different settings A randomized controlled trial was carried out for 1 y in three tertiary and teaching hospitals, in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and Merid... A Cattaneo,R Davanzo,B Worku,.....
This paper reports on the results of testing the effectiveness of two different kinds of face-to-face facilitation used in conjunction with a well-designed educational package in the scaling up of kangaroo mother care. Thirty-six hospitals in the Provinces of Gauteng and Mpumalanga in South ...
This study is novel as preterm baby is more in this country and place of this study is a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh where most of the preterm babies are referred from other districts. But there are short of costly incubator in this hospital as well as others hospitals. By conducti...
aimed to assess the progress with the imple- mentation of KMC for LBW infants at four regions, reported that 68% of the surveyed hospitals demonstrated sufficient progress with its implementation.20 KMC implementation involved the incorporation of care into existing conventional neonatal care services....
Scala hopes other hospitals will follow suit. "I would love for people to see this as part of the medical plan, not just something nice we're doing, but to be really intentional about it," Scala said. "Our findings underscore the value of having parents on the intensive care unit, doin...
To assess the impact of the introduction of kangaroo mother care (KMC) in hospitals using the Perinatal Problem Identification Programme (PPIP) in South Africa, a survey was conducted of the PPIP sentinel sites in South Africa requesting information on the practice of KMC in the hospital and if...