Table 5.
Mortality rates of infants born in the final year of intervention*
| SR | AWW | Control | SR versus control; adjusted OR† (95% CI) | AWW versus control; adjusted OR† (95% CI) | |
| Neonatal mortality rate (per 1000 live births) |
26.5 | 30.0 | 33.5 | 0.75 (0.57 to 0.99) | 0.85 (0.65 to 1.09) |
| Early neonatal mortality rate (per 1000 live births) |
17.9 | 22.9 | 24.8 | 0.68 (0.52 to 0.90) | 0.87 (0.66 to 1.16) |
| Young infant mortality rate (per 1000 live births) |
28.3 | 33.7 | 37.3 | 0.73 (0.56 to 0.95) | 0.86 (0.66 to 1.10) |
| Infant mortality rate (per 1000 live births) |
37.7 | 46.1 | 52.4 | 0.67 (0.54 to 0.83) | 0.81 (0.65 to 1.02) |
| Stillbirth rate (per 1000 births) |
14.8 | 18.1 | 17.3 | 0.81 (0.56 to 1.16) | 1.06 (0.79 to 1.41) |
| Perinatal mortality rate (per 1000 births) |
32.5 | 40.6 | 41.5 | 0.73 (0.57 to 0.93) | 0.94 (0.75 to 1.19) |
*Between Holi festival in March 2008 and next Holi in March 2009.
†Adjusted for religion, caste, resident status and education at the individual level, and distance to district hospital (<25 km), access to PHC or CHC, presence of private clinics, provision of Janani Suraksha Yojana and ASHA in the village; cluster adjusted for villages.
ASHA, accredited social and health activists; AWW, anganwadi workers; CHC, community health centres; PHC, primary health centres; SR, Shishu Rakshak.