Effectiveness of Home Based Newborn Care HBNC on knowledge attitude and practices among ASHAs Accredited Social Health Activists working in rural areas of Uttarakhand

Abstract

Every year, about 2.6 million infants die during the initial 30 newlinedays of life, and India contributes for almost twenty percent of worldwide live births and newlineone-quarter of newborn mortality. In 2018, the newborn death rate in Uttarakhand was 31 newlineper 1000 live births, which is much greater than the SDG-3 goal of 12 deaths per 1000 newlinelive births by 2030. Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) under National Health newlineMission of Government of India was established to promote community healthcare newlineservices including Reproductive and Child Health programs in villages. The current newlineresearch was conducted to identify factors affecting implementation of HBNC by ASHA newlineusing Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and also to measure effectiveness of re-education newlineon HBNC knowledge score, attitude score and practice score of ASHAs working in rural newlineUttarakhand, India.