Neonatology

Kangaroo mother care, skin-to-skin contact

Asia

• BMC International Health and Human Rights
  • The three waves in implementation of facility-based kangaroo mother care: a multi-country case study from Asia [2016]

Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

• Journal of Global Health
  • Monitoring the implementation and scale-up of a life-saving intervention for preterm and small babies: Facility-based Kangaroo Mother Care [2021]

Bangladesh

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Prevalence and factors associated with skin-to-skin contact (SSC) practice: findings from a population-based cross-sectional survey in 10 selected districts of Bangladesh [2021]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Implementation research on kangaroo mother care, Bangladesh [2022]

• Implementation Science Communications
  • Fidelity of kangaroo mother care services in the public health facilities in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional mixed-method study [2021]

Brazil

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Factors associated with skin-to-skin contact less than 180 min/day in newborns weighing up to 1,800 g: multicenter study [2023]

• Jornal de Pediatria
  • Skin-to-skin contact and deaths in newborns weighing up to 1800 grams: a cohort study [2022]

Canada

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Skin-to-skin care (SSC) for term and preterm infants [2024]
  • Kangaroo care for the preterm infant and family [2012]

Canada, United Kingdom, United States

• Acta Paediatrica
  • The content, experiences and outcomes of interventions designed to increase early skin-to-skin contact in high-income settings: A mixed-methods systematic review [2023]

China

• BMJ Open
  • Neonatal intensive care nurses’ knowledge and beliefs regarding kangaroo care in China: a national survey [2018]

• International Breastfeeding Journal
  • Intermittent kangaroo mother care and the practice of breastfeeding late preterm infants: results from four hospitals in different provinces of China [2020]

• World Journal of Pediatrics
  • Implementation experience of a 12-month intervention to introduce intermittent kangaroo mother care to eight Chinese neonatal intensive care units [2022]

Colombia

• BMJ Global Health
  • Follow-up of Kangaroo Mother Care programmes in the last 28 years: results from a cohort of 57 154 low-birth-weight infants in Colombia [2023]

Developing countries

• Jornal de Pediatria
  • The effectiveness of Kangaroo Mother Care in hospitalization period of preterm and low birth weight infants: systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

Ethiopia

• BioMed Research International
  • Maternal Health Service Uptake Is Associated with a Higher Skin-to-Skin Care Practice in Ethiopia: Result from a National Survey [2020]

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Health professional assisted Kangaroo mother care practice in Ethiopian health care facilities: evidence from the 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey [2023]

• PLoS ONE
  • Knowledge, attitude and practice towards kangaroo mother care among postnatal women in Ethiopia: Systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Quality of Kangaroo Mother Care services in Ethiopia: Implications for policy and practice [2019]

Europe

• European Standards of Care for Newborn Health
  • Very early and continuous skin-to-skin contact
  • Facilitation of skin-to-skin care and parental involvement through the physical environment

Gambia

• Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association
  • Prevalence and determinants of mother and newborn skin-to-skin contact in The Gambia: a secondary data analysis [2020]

Ghana

• Ghana Medical Journal
  • Progress with the Implementation of Kangaroo Mother Care in Four Regions in Ghana [2013]

India

• Indian Journal of Pediatrics
  • Mother-Newborn Care Unit (MNCU) Experience in India: A Paradigm Shift in Care of Small and Sick Newborns [2022]

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  • Operational Guidelines - Kangaroo Mother Care & Optimal feeding of Low Birth Weight Infants [2014]

International

• Acta Paediatrica
  • Strategies discussed at the XIIth international conference on Kangaroo mother care for implementation on a countrywide scale [2020]

• Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine
  • Evaluation of the impact of kangaroo mother care on neonatal mortality and hospitalization: A meta-analysis [2023]

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • What influences the implementation of kangaroo mother care? An umbrella review [2022]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Kangaroo mother care for preterm or low birth weight infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Effects of kangaroo mother care on maternal and paternal health: systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality in low birthweight infants [2016]
  • Early skin-to-skin contact for mothers and their healthy newborn infants [2016]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Effects of Kangaroo Mother Care in the NICU on the Physiological Stress Parameters of Premature Infants: A Meta-Analysis of RCTs [2022]

• Journal of Education and Health Promotion
  • Effect of Kangaroo Mother Care on hospital management indicators: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [2019]

• Journal of the Turkish German Gynecological Association
  • The effect of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth on exclusive breastfeeding: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• Maternal & Child Nutrition
  • The nine stages of skin-to-skin: practical guidelines and insights from four countries [2020]

• Pediatrics
  • Kangaroo Mother Care and Neonatal Outcomes: A Meta-analysis [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Worldwide prevalence of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact after vaginal birth: A systematic review [2018]

• U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Kangaroo Mother Care Implementation Guide [2012]

Italy

• Italian Journal of Pediatrics
  • Surveying family access: kangaroo mother care and breastfeeding policies across NICUs in Italy [2021]

Low and middle income countries

• African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
  • Facilitating factors and barriers to kangaroo mother care utilisation in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review [2021]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Improving the implementation of kangaroo mother care [2021]

• Lancet Digital Health
  • Wireless skin sensors for physiological monitoring of infants in low-income and middle-income countries [2021]

• New England Journal of Medicine
  • Immediate Kangaroo Mother Care and Survival of Low Birth Weight Infants [2021]

Malawi

• Journal of Global Health
  • Readiness of hospitals to provide Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) and documentation of KMC service delivery: Analysis of Malawi 2014 Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) survey data [2017]

Mexico

• International Breastfeeding Journal
  • Influence of skin-to-skin contact on breastfeeding: results of the Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics, 2018 [2022]

Middle East

• Nutrients
  • Review of Kangaroo Mother Care in the Middle East [2022]

New Zealand

• Starship
  • Kangaroo care [2015]

Nicaragua

• Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
  • The cost-savings of implementing kangaroo mother care in Nicaragua [2013]

Nigeria

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Coverage and factors associated with mother and newborn skin-to-skin contact in Nigeria: a multilevel analysis [2021]

• International Breastfeeding Journal
  • Skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding practices in Nigeria: a study of socioeconomic inequalities [2021]

Pakistan

• BMJ Case Reports
  • Kangaroo mother care: need of the day [2019]

• Journal of Pakistan Medical Association
  • Kangaroo mother care: opportunities and implications for rural Pakistan [2019]

Papua New Guinea

• BMJ Open
  • Prevalence and predictors of mother and newborn skin-to-skin contact at birth in Papua New Guinea [2022]

Philippines

• BMJ Global Health
  • Scaling up kangaroo mother care in the Philippines using policy, regulatory and systems reform to drive changes in birth practices [2021]

Spain

• Anales de Pediatría (English Edition)
  • Kangaroo care during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Spain [2021]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Barriers and facilitators of facility-based kangaroo mother care in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2021]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Mother and newborn skin-to-skin contact in sub-Saharan Africa: prevalence and predictors [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Mother and newborn skin-to-skin contact and timely initiation of breastfeeding in sub-Saharan Africa [2023]

United States

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Safe Sleep and Skin-to-Skin Care in the Neonatal Period for Healthy Term Newborns [2016]
  • Skin-to-Skin Care for Term and Preterm Infants in the Neonatal ICU [2015]

• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses
  • Immediate and Sustained Skin-to-Skin Contact for Healthy Late Preterm and Term Newborns After Birth: AWHONN Practice Brief Number 14 [2021]

Vietnam

• Children
  • Kangaroo Mother Care in Vietnam: A National Survey of a Middle-Income Country [2022]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Kangaroo mother care: a transformative innovation in health care. Global position paper. [2023]
  • Kangaroo mother care - Implementation strategy for scale-up adaptable to different country contexts [2023]
  • Kangaroo mother care: a practical guide [2003]
  • Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) Scale-up toolkit

WHO Western Pacific Region

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Introducing and sustaining EENC in hospitals : kangaroo mother care for pre-term and low-birthweight infants [2018]

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