Table 4.

Healthcare worker (HCW) survey assessing the study implementation and postnatal care outreach provided — Mobile Phone Pilot Study, Lao-PDR, 2014.

	Intervention (n = 17)		Comparison (n = 13)
	n	%	n	%
Knowledge
Reported it was important to visit a baby within 24 h of birth	17	100	13	100
Knew optimal timing of HepB-BD is ⩽24 h	15	88	10	77
Notification
Village health volunteers (VHVs) notify HCW of imminent deliveries/births	17	100	11	85
VHV notified HCW by mobile phone	17	100	8	73
Postnatalhomevisit
% of the home births that HCW visited within 24 h of notification
Never	0	0	0	0
25% of the time	7	41	3	23
50% of the time	1	6	3	23
75% of the time	1	6	1	8
Most of the time	8	47	4	31
All of the time	0	0	2	15
Problems preventing visiting home births within 24 h of notification
Village too far	4	24	2	15
Village inaccessible	10	59	6	46
No outreach money	4	24	3	23
Too busy	0	0	2	15
Reportedly provide HepB-BD for all newborns	10	59	9	69
Services provided at a postnatal home visit
BCGa vaccine for neonate	11	65	10	77
HepB-BD vaccine for neonate	17	100	11	85
Education on clean cord care	15	88	12	92
Education on exclusive breast feeding	17	100	12	92
Education on vaccine schedule	11	65	8	62
Vitamin A for mother	12	71	12	92
Iron/folate for mother	12	71	11	85
Birth notification form	14	82	10	77
Examined baby	16	94	12	92
Examined mother	16	94	12	92

^aBacillus Calmette-Guérin.