Senarath 2007.

Methods	Randomised controlled trial Country: Sri Lanka Setting: delivery room Type of targeted behaviour: general management/preparation and conduct of delivery care for newborn
Participants	Doctors, nurses, midwives 110 participants (59 intervention, 61 control)
Interventions	Essential newborn care course Duration of training: 4 days Co‐interventions: none Control: usual/standard practice
Outcomes	Assessment of breathing, preparedness for resuscitation (i.e. "suction device prepared, neonatal ambu bag and mask prepared, neonatal emergency tray prepared, breathing of newborn checked")
Notes	Reported data restricted to results of direct observations of delivery practices made on a subsample consisting of 96 health providers (48 before and 48 after the intervention) Postintervention data collection period: 3 months 'Unit of analysis error present': The unit of randomisation was hospitals, while the unit of analysis was observed delivery room care practices. Effects in training and control groups were not directly compared in the analysis Overall risk of bias assessment: high risk of bias
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	The method used to generate allocation sequence was not reported
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	The method used to conceal allocation sequence was not reported
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Low risk	No loss to follow‐up was reported
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	Prespecified outcomes were reported
Blinding All outcomes	High risk	The principal investigator made observations in the labour room
Contamination All outcomes	Low risk	It is unlikely that the control group received the training intervention