Community Trial of Newborn Skin and Umbilical Cord Cleansing on Neonatal Mortality in Nepal
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Official title
Newborn Antiseptic Washing and Neonatal Mortality-Nepal
Brief summary
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Neonatal mortality and morbidity is common in Nepal and the vast majority of women deliver babies at home without a skilled birth attendant. The purpose of this project is two-fold: 1) to evaluate whether washing a newborn child with a dilute antiseptic solution soon after birth can reduce mortality in the first 4 weeks of life and 2) to evaluate whether cleaning the umbilical cord and stump with either soap and water or an antiseptic solution for the first few days of life can reduce umbilical cord infections.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00109616
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Lead sponsor
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- NIH
- Enrollment
- 17,000 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Newborn skin cleansing with 0.25% chlorhexidine solution Behavioral
- Cleansing of umbilical cord with soap and water solution Behavioral
- Cleansing of umbilical cord with 4% chlorhexidine Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 1 Minute to 10 Days
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Sep 30, 2002
- Primary completion
- Not listed
- Completion
- Dec 31, 2005
- Last update posted
- Apr 30, 2013
2002 – 2006
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Baltimore | Maryland | 21205-2103 | — |
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Non-U.S. locations
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- Last update posted Apr 30, 2013 · Synced Sep 6, 2026
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