Kangaroo Mother Care implementation research to develop models for accelerating scale-up in India and Ethiopia: study protocol for an adequacy evaluation

Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Hibret Alemu, Anteneh Asefa, Selemawit Asfaw Beyene, Fisseha Ashebir Gebregizabher, Khalid Aziz, Nita Bhandari, Habtamu Beyene, Thomas Brune, Grace Chan, John N Cranmer, G Darmstadt, Dereje Duguma, Addisalem Fikre, Bizuayehu Gashaw Andualem, Abebe Gebremariam Gobezayehu, Damen Haile Mariam, Tedros Hailu Abay, H L Mohan, Arun Jadaun, K Jayanna, F N U Kajal, Arin Kar, Raghav Krishna, Aarti Kumar, Vishwajeet Kumar, Tarun Kumar Madhur, Mulusew Lijalem Belew, Rajini M, Jose Martines, Sarmila Mazumder, Hajira Amin, Prem K Mony, Mekonnen Muleta, Cynthia Pileggi-Castro, Suman Pn Rao, Abiy Seifu Estifanos, Lynn M Sibley, Nalini Singhal, Henok Tadele, Abraham Tariku, Ephrem Tekle Lemango, Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Ravi Upadhyay, Bogale Worku, Marta Yemane Hadush, Rajiv Bahl, KMC Scale-Up Study Group, Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Hibret Alemu, Anteneh Asefa, Selemawit Asfaw Beyene, Fisseha Ashebir Gebregizabher, Khalid Aziz, Nita Bhandari, Habtamu Beyene, Thomas Brune, Grace J Chan, John N Cranmer, Gary Lee Darmstadt, Dereje Duguma, Addisalem Fikre, Bizuayehu Gashaw Andualem, Abebe Gebremariam Gobezayehu, Damen Haile Mariam, Tedros Hailu Abay, H L Mohan, Arun Jadaun, Krishnamurthy Jayanna, F N U Kajal, Arin Kar, Raghav Krishna, Aarti Kumar, Vishwajeet Kumar, Tarun Kumar Madhur, Mulusew Lijalem Belew, M Rajini, Jose Carlos Martines, Sarmila Mazumder, Hajira Mohammed Amin, Prem K Mony, Mekonnen Muleta, Cynthia Pileggi-Castro, Suman Rao, Abiy Seifu Estifanos, Lynn M Sibley, Nalini Singhal, Henok Tadele, Abraham Tariku, Ephrem Tekle Lemango, Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Ravi Prakash Upadhyay, Bogale Worku, Marta Yemane Hadush, Rajiv Bahl, Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Hibret Alemu, Anteneh Asefa, Selemawit Asfaw Beyene, Fisseha Ashebir Gebregizabher, Khalid Aziz, Nita Bhandari, Habtamu Beyene, Thomas Brune, Grace Chan, John N Cranmer, G Darmstadt, Dereje Duguma, Addisalem Fikre, Bizuayehu Gashaw Andualem, Abebe Gebremariam Gobezayehu, Damen Haile Mariam, Tedros Hailu Abay, H L Mohan, Arun Jadaun, K Jayanna, F N U Kajal, Arin Kar, Raghav Krishna, Aarti Kumar, Vishwajeet Kumar, Tarun Kumar Madhur, Mulusew Lijalem Belew, Rajini M, Jose Martines, Sarmila Mazumder, Hajira Amin, Prem K Mony, Mekonnen Muleta, Cynthia Pileggi-Castro, Suman Pn Rao, Abiy Seifu Estifanos, Lynn M Sibley, Nalini Singhal, Henok Tadele, Abraham Tariku, Ephrem Tekle Lemango, Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Ravi Upadhyay, Bogale Worku, Marta Yemane Hadush, Rajiv Bahl, KMC Scale-Up Study Group, Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Hibret Alemu, Anteneh Asefa, Selemawit Asfaw Beyene, Fisseha Ashebir Gebregizabher, Khalid Aziz, Nita Bhandari, Habtamu Beyene, Thomas Brune, Grace J Chan, John N Cranmer, Gary Lee Darmstadt, Dereje Duguma, Addisalem Fikre, Bizuayehu Gashaw Andualem, Abebe Gebremariam Gobezayehu, Damen Haile Mariam, Tedros Hailu Abay, H L Mohan, Arun Jadaun, Krishnamurthy Jayanna, F N U Kajal, Arin Kar, Raghav Krishna, Aarti Kumar, Vishwajeet Kumar, Tarun Kumar Madhur, Mulusew Lijalem Belew, M Rajini, Jose Carlos Martines, Sarmila Mazumder, Hajira Mohammed Amin, Prem K Mony, Mekonnen Muleta, Cynthia Pileggi-Castro, Suman Rao, Abiy Seifu Estifanos, Lynn M Sibley, Nalini Singhal, Henok Tadele, Abraham Tariku, Ephrem Tekle Lemango, Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse, Ravi Prakash Upadhyay, Bogale Worku, Marta Yemane Hadush, Rajiv Bahl

Abstract

Introduction: Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is the practice of early, continuous and prolonged skin-to-skin contact between the mother and the baby with exclusive breastfeeding. Despite clear evidence of impact in improving survival and health outcomes among low birth weight infants, KMC coverage has remained low and implementation has been limited. Consequently, only a small fraction of newborns that could benefit from KMC receive it.

Methods and analysis: This implementation research project aims to develop and evaluate district-level models for scaling up KMC in India and Ethiopia that can achieve high population coverage. The project includes formative research to identify barriers and contextual factors that affect implementation and utilisation of KMC and design scalable models to deliver KMC across the facility-community continuum. This will be followed by implementation and evaluation of these models in routine care settings, in an iterative fashion, with the aim of reaching a successful model for wider district, state and national-level scale-up. Implementation actions would happen at three levels: 'pre-KMC facility'-to maximise the number of newborns getting to a facility that provides KMC; 'KMC facility'-for initiation and maintenance of KMC; and 'post-KMC facility'-for continuation of KMC at home. Stable infants with birth weight<2000 g and born in the catchment population of the study KMC facilities would form the eligible population. The primary outcome will be coverage of KMC in the preceding 24 hours and will be measured at discharge from the KMC facility and 7 days after hospital discharge.

Ethics and dissemination: Ethics approval was obtained in all the project sites, and centrally by the Research Ethics Review Committee at the WHO. Results of the project will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal for publication, in addition to national and global level dissemination.

Study status: WHO approved protocol: V.4-12 May 2016-Protocol ID: ERC 2716. Study implementation beginning: April 2017. Study end: expected March 2019.

Trial registration number: Community Empowerment Laboratory, Uttar Pradesh, India (ISRCTN12286667); St John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India and Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Bangalore, India (CTRI/2017/07/008988); Society for Applied Studies, Delhi (NCT03098069); Oromia, Ethiopia (NCT03419416); Amhara, SNNPR and Tigray, Ethiopia (NCT03506698).

Keywords: kangaroo-mother care method; low birth weight; newborn; research protocol.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ.

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Core framework for Kangaroo Mother Care implementation.
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Logic model for Kangaroo Mother Care scale-up.
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Optimisation of implementation model.
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Research timeline.

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