Improving Skin-to-Skin Practice for babies in Kangaroo Mother Care in Malawi through the use of a customized baby wrap: A randomized control trial.

BACKGROUND:Complications of prematurity are a leading cause of newborn death in Malawi. Despite early adoption of Kangaroo mother care (KMC), coverage remains low and women have expressed challenges in using the traditional wrapper-chitenje. In 2016, a study was conducted to evaluate the acceptabili...

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Main Authors: Kondwani Chavula, Tanya Guenther, Bina Valsangkar, Victoria Lwesha, Gedesi Banda, Marte Bøe Wensaas, Richard Luhanga, Lydia Chimtembo, Mary V Kinney, Queen Dube
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229720