Table 3. Reported skin-to-skin practices while in facility-based KMC and post-discharge.
| Study Group | Total(N = 241) | |||
| Skin-to-skin practices in facility KMC | CarePlus Wrap (n = 126) | Chitenje (n = 115) | p-value | |
| Usual amount of time in skin-to-skin contact during daytime | 0.00 | |||
| Nearly all the day | 54.0 | 40.9 | 47.7 | |
| More than half the day | 43.9 | 45.2 | 44.0 | |
| Some of the day (less than half) | 3.2 | 13.9 | 8.3 | |
| Usual amount of time in skin-to-skin contact during nighttime | 0.00 | |||
| Nearly all the night | 52.4 | 49.6 | 51.0 | |
| More than half the night | 44.4 | 33.0 | 39.0 | |
| Some of the night (less than half) | 3.2 | 17.4 | 10.0 | |
| Reported hours/day baby usually placed in skin-to-skin contact | 0.03 | |||
| 20 or more hours | 44.4 | 33.0 | 39.0 | |
| 11–19 hours | 46.0 | 44.4 | 45.2 | |
| 5–10 hours | 5.6 | 18.3 | 11.6 | |
| 4 hours or less | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | |
| Don’t know | 3.2 | 3.5 | 3.3 | |
| Skin-to-skin practices post-discharge | CarePlus Wrap (n = 126) | Chitenje (n = 115) | p-value | Total (N = 243) |
| Baby in skin-to-skin position (observed) | 52.7 | 48.3 | 0.49 | 50.6 |
| Still practicing skin-to-skin contact (reported) | 86.1 | 88.6 | 0.55 | 87.2 |
| Practicing skin-to-skin contact every day (for those practicing) | 94.6 | 89.5 | 0.22 | 92.2 |
| Usual amount of time in skin-to-skin contact during daytime* | 0.66 | |||
| Nearly all the day | 28.8 | 27.7 | 28.3 | |
| More than half the day | 46.0 | 48.5 | 47.2 | |
| Some of the day (less than half) | 24.3 | 20.8 | 22.6 | |
| Not at all | 0.9 | 3.0 | 1.9 | |
| Usual amount of time in skin-to-skin contact during nighttime* | 0.07 | |||
| Nearly all the night | 59.5 | 69.3 | 64.2 | |
| More than half the night | 29.7 | 18.8 | 24.4 | |
| Some of the night (less than half) | 6.3 | 10.9 | 8.5 | |
| Not at all | 4.5 | 1.0 | 2.8 | |
*Data available for 212 cases (111 intervention and 101 control) who were still practicing skin-to-skin contact at the post-discharge interview. Note: the categories for “usual amount of time” (nearly all the day/night, more than half the day/night, some of the day/night) were not specified, and they were left to the respondents to determine.