Status:
COMPLETED
Birth Cohort in Rahimyar Khan, Pakistan
Lead Sponsor:
The Hospital for Sick Children
Collaborating Sponsors:
March of Dimes
Aga Khan University
Conditions:
Child Mortality
Child Morbidity
Eligibility:
All Genders
1-1 years
Brief Summary
In 2010, 7.6 million children under the age of five died worldwide and yet the causes of only 2.7% (0.205 million) of these deaths were medically certified. A thorough understanding of the causes of c...
Detailed Description
In 2010, 7.6 million children under the age of five died worldwide (Liu et al., 2012). Notably, the burden of under-five mortality varies dramatically by country. The majority of total child deaths in...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- All pregnant women and their home- or facility-born live newborns that consented to participate in the control arm of the intervention trial "An integrated toolkit to save newborn lives in Pakistan" (NCT02130856) will be eligible for this study
Exclusion
- Did not consent to participate in the control arm of "An integrated toolkit to save newborn lives in Pakistan"(NCT02130856). Since the birth cohort study has been designed to utilize a portion of the data collected in the neonatal kit trial, individuals who do not enroll in the kit study will not be eligible to participate in birth cohort study as they will not have a complete set of data.
- Failure to provide consent to enroll in this study.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 1 2014
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 22 2016
Estimated Enrollment :
2271 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02233127
Start Date
October 1 2014
End Date
July 22 2016
Last Update
April 25 2017
Active Locations (1)
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Aga Khan University
Karachi, Pakistan, 74800