Table 2.

Search terms

Intervention

Kangaroo-Mother Care Method/ “kangaroo mother care” OR “kangaroo care” OR “KMC” OR “skin to skin” OR “skin-to-skin” OR “STS care”

Context

“Africa South of the Sahara”/ Africa or sub-Sahar* or south* Africa or west* Africa or east* Africa or Angola or Benin or Botswana or Burkina Faso or Burundi or Cameroon or Cameroons or Cameron or Camerons or Cape Verde or Cabo Verde or Central African Republic or Chad or Comoros or Comoro Islands or Comores or Mayotte or Congo or Zaire or Cote d’Ivoire or Ivory Coast or Djibouti or French Somaliland or Eritrea or Ethiopia or Gabon or Gabonese Republic or Gambia or Ghana or Guinea or Guinea-Bissau or Kenya or Lesotho or Basutoland or Liberia or Madagascar or Malawi or Nyasaland or Mali or Mauritania or Mauritius or Mozambique or Namibia or Niger or Nigeria or Rwanda or Ruanda or “Sao Tome and Principe” or Senegal or Seychelles or Sierra Leone or Somalia or South Africa or Sudan or South Sudan or Swaziland or Eswatini or Tanzania or Togo or Uganda or Zambia or Zimbabwe or Rhodesia