Table 1.
Performance Scores on Individual First Actions
| First Actions | Women attended by HBLSS Trained Attendant n=269 n(%)a |
Women attended by Untrained Attendant n=165 n(%)a |
p-Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dried baby, wiped mouth/nose | 258 (96) | 157 (95) | .78 |
| Covered baby | 261 (97) | 154 (93) | .04* |
| Rubbed baby's back | 6 (19) | 18 (11) | .02* |
| Tied and cut cord | 261 (97) | 158 (96) | .41 |
| Squat and passed urine | 137 (51) | 45 (27) | <.001 |
| Rubbed Womb | 170 (63) | 55 (33) | <.001 |
| Semi-Sit | 40 (15) | 15 (9) | .11 |
| Put baby to breast | 199 (74) | 104 (63) | .01* |
| Proper disposal of placenta | 223 (83) | 119 (72) | .01* |
a
Rounded to the nearest whole percent