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. 2015 Dec 1;2015(12):CD010994. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010994.pub2

Shrestha 2011.

Trial name or title MIRA Dhanusha: Community interventions to reduce child mortality in Dhanusha, Nepal.
Trial Registration: ISRCTN87820538.
Methods Cluster‐randomised trial.
Participants Pregnant women and infants up to 1 year of age.
Interventions Arm 1: women's groups, female community health volunteers trained to care for vulnerable infants.
Arm 2: standard care.
Outcomes Primary outcome: neonatal mortality.
Secondary outcome: MIRA Dhanusha community group: stillbirth, infant and under‐2 mortality rates, care practices and healthcare‐seeking behaviour, maternal diet, breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices, maternal and under‐2 anthropometric status. MIRA Dhanusha sepsis management: identification and treatment of neonatal sepsis by community health volunteers, infection‐specific neonatal mortality.
Starting date Jan 2008‐Jan 2010.
Contact information Naomi Saville: n.saville@ich.ucl.ac.uk
Notes Funding: UBS Optimus Foundation (Switzerland).
This trial has finished, but we have not located published data.