AIM To describe the development and testing of a monitoring model with quantitative indicators or progress markers that could measure the progress of individual hospitals in the implementation of kangaroo mother care (KMC). METHODS Three qualitative data sets in the larger research programme on the implementation of KMC of the MRC Research Unit for Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies i...

OBJECTIVE We adapted kangaroo mother care for immediate postnatal community-based application in rural Bangladesh, where the incidence of home delivery, low birth weight, and neonatal and infant mortality is high and neonatal intensive care is unavailable. This trial tested whether community-based kangaroo mother care reduces the overall neonatal mortality rate by 27.5%, infant mortality rate b...

Kangaroo care (KC) is the practice of skin-to-skin contact between infant and parent. In developing countries, KC for low-birthweight infants has been shown to reduce mortality, severe illness, infection and length of hospital stay. KC is also beneficial for preterm infants in high-income countries. Cardiorespiratory and temperature stability, sleep organization and duration of quiet sleep, neu...

abstract   background: the aim of study was to compare the effect of kangaroo mother care (kmc) and conventional methods of care (cmc) in low birth weight babies less than 2000 grams.   method: one hundred babies with birth weight less than 2000 grams and without clinical problem were randomized in two groups the intervention group (n=50) who received kangaroo mother care and the control group ...

care for low birthweight infants: a randomized controlled trial in different settings. Acta Paediatr 1998;87:976–85. 7 Conde-Agudelo A, Diaz-Rossello JL, Belizan JM. Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality in low birthweight infants (Cochrane Review). The Cochrane Library: Issue 4. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2003. 8 Worku B, Kassie A. Kangaroo mother care: a randomiz...

abstractbackground: infantile colic is a common complaint in the first few weeks of life. on the other hand, because of its unknown etiology, there is not a specific therapy for this complaint, but various therapeutic options for reducing pain and restlessness of these infants are recommended. skin to skin contact by kangaroo mother care (kmc) increases in pain threshold and it seems to be a su...

AIM To develop a conceptual tool to assist healthcare workers and management in the implementation of a kangaroo mother care programme. METHODS A qualitative research approach was followed and methods included on-site observations and informal conversational interviews, as well as unstructured, in-depth interviews with senior managers, doctors and nurses at two large training hospitals in the...