Promoting Kangaroo Care for Preterm or Low Birthweight Infants in Rural India

Description

This study aims to create and evaluate interventions to support the practice of Kangaroo Care among mothers of preterm or low birth weight infants in the community-seeing after discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unity. Using a mixed methods and Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) design-based trial, we aim to: Aim 1: Use community-engaged research and qualitative methods to refine up to four individual candidate interventions to overcome barriers to community-based Kangaroo Care, Aim 2: Pilot individual candidate interventions to assess implementation outcomes and define optimization criterion tailored for the community setting, Aim 3: Conduct a MOST design-based optimization trial to develop a community-informed, multicomponent intervention to promote community-based Kangaroo Care