Nepal Clean Home Delivery Kit: Evaluation of the Health Impact - Path

Table 10. Infection rates by confounders and cohorts
Kit User,
Trained
CORD INFECTION RATES
Kit User, Kit Non-user,
Untrained Trained
Kit Non-user,
Untrained
Total
Interview 2 23.0 25.9 22.4 14.5 21.6
Week 3 15.8 19.5 12.8 8.9 14.4
4 5.2 11.9 12.0 12.6 10.6
Month July 10.6 12.8 5.3 10.7 9.8
August 11.5 24.1 14.6 13.6 14.4
September 16.4 19.2 17.0 14.3 16.8
October 20.8 24.5 22.4 0.0 22.5
November 16.9 19.0 19.7 0.0 18.5
District Siraha 10.2 6.9 13.2 1.6 8.7
Morang 31.1 31.2 23.6 21.3 26.4
Sunsari 9.3 16.6 13.6 9.4 12.6
Interviewer 11 8.2 6.3 9.1 1.5 5.6
Count (4/49) (1/16) (4/44) (1/68) (10/177)
12 2.6 3.8 6.3 1.8 4.0
Count (1/39) (1/26) (5/80) (1/55) (8/200)
21 34.1 32.3 21.9 22.7 27.6
Count (31/91) (31/96) (21/96) (22/97) (105/380)
22 31.0 18.9 14.8 19.6 20.2
Count (13/42) (10/53) (9/61) (18/92) (50/248)
31 1.6 18.2 13.3 15.6 12.2
Count (1/63) (12/66) (6/45) (10/64) (29/238)
32 14.0 18.4 28.2 3.2 16.5
Count (19/136) (26/141) (22/78) (2/62) (69/417)
Kit Use and Other Factors Related to Infection
There were 271 cases identified as likely infection (16.3% of all births). The highest
unadjusted infection rate was among kit users with untrained attendants (20%), followed
by kit users and non-users with trained attendants (16%, 17%) and then non-users with
untrained attendants (12%). There were 28 newborn deaths (1.7% of eligible births), of
which two were thought to be likely infections. Maternal health was similar between the
user and non-user groups, with about 85% of mothers healthy at the time of interview, 7-
8% ill previously but well at interview, 7-8% ill at the interview, and less than 1% very ill
at interview.
A multiple logistic regression analysis was undertaken to estimate relative risks
associated with kit use and other factors related to infection and to control for the
confounding factors identified above. Relative risk is the increased risk of the outcome
(e.g., cord infection) over the risk associated the specified reference action or condition,
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