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Table 6 proportion of deliveries with protective antepartum and intrapartum practices for mothers who delivered at home with or without a traditional birth attendant

From: Is essential newborn care provided by institutions and after home births? Analysis of prospective data from community trials in rural South Asia

Care practice

Ekjut (Eastern India)

PCP (Bangladesh)

Makwanpur (Nepal)

Dhanusha (Nepal)

41%of home non-SBA deliveries were by TBA

83%of home non-SBA deliveries were by TBA

3%of home non-SBA deliveries were by TBA

23%of home non-SBA deliveries were by TBA

Proportion of antepartum hygienic care practices in non-SBA home deliveries with 95%confidence intervals (%)

 

No TBA

TBA

All non-SBA home

No TBA

TBA

All non-SBA home

No TBA

TBA

All non-SBA home

No TBA

TBA

All non-SBA home

Attendant washed hands before delivery

16 [9-24]

36 [24-49]

24 [12-35]

58 [41-75]

83 [76-90]

79 [71-87]

50 [38-61]

92 [83-100]

51 [40-63]

71 [63-79]

66 [57-76]

69 [61-77]

Clean Delivery Kit used

15 [9-21]

20 [13-27]

17 [12-22]

8 [3-14]

17 [11-22]

15 [9-21]

17 [7-27]

40 [25-55]

18 [8-27]

7 [4-10]

8 [4-11]

7 [4-9]

Attendant used disposable gloves

3 [1-6]

2 [1-3]

3 [1-5]

3 [1-5]

8 [4-12]

7 [3-11]

      

Plastic sheet used

6 [3-8]

9 [5-13]

7 [4-11]

25 [20-30]

45 [40-50]

41 [36-46]

      

Proportion of intrapartum and postnatal cord care in non-SBA home deliveries with 95% confidence intervals (%)

Thread/clamp used during delivery

98 [96-100]

99 [98-99]

98 [98-99]

94 [89-99]

97 [96-99]

97 [95-99]

79 [61-98]

 

79 [61-98]

99 [99-99]

98 [98-99]

99 [99-99]

Cord tied with boiled thread

11 [0-24]

14 [9-18]

12 [7-17]

52 [40-64]

60 [56-64]

59 [54-63]

      

Cord cut with new/sterile blade

78 [62-93]

87 [82-91]

81 [75-87]

98 [97-99]

99 [99-99]

99 [98-99]

45 [37-54]

 

47 [38-55]

22 [17-27]

22 [17-28]

22 [17-27]

Nothing or only antiseptic applied to cord stump

92 [86-99]

91 [88-93]

91 [90-93]

67 [53-81]

52 [42-62]

55 [44-66]

76 [66-87]

 

76 [66-87]

50 [44-57]

49 [41-56]

52 [45-60]

  1. Proportion of deliveries with protective antepartum and intrapartum practices for mothers who delivered at home without skilled birth attendance, separated by whether there was a traditional birth attendant (TBA) present. Values in bold font show practices where there was at least a 10 percentage point difference between TBA and non-TBA deliveries (whether positive or negative). The data for intrapartum TBA deliveries in Makwanpur was too sparse to calculate cluster-adjusted results.