The reliability of a newborn foot length measurement tool used by community volunteers to identify low birth weight or premature babies born at home in southern Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15361276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tanya Marchant (0000-0002-4228-4334, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, corresponding author), Suzanne Penfold (0000-0003-1561-3531, University of London), Elibariki Mkumbo (Ifakara Health Institute), Donat Shamba (0000-0001-7431-7199, Ifakara Health Institute), Jennie Jaribu (Ifakara Health Institute), Fatuma Manzi (0000-0001-9110-0776, Ifakara Health Institute), J Schellenberg (0000-0002-0708-3676, University of London) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 859-859 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BMC Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-2458 • E-ISSN: 1471-2458 |
| Publisher | BioMed Central (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-859 |
| PMID | 25142865 |
| PMCID | PMC4152587 |
| OpenAlex | W2114165661 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 19 |
The newborn foot length tool used by community volunteers to identify small babies born at home was moderately reliable in southern Tanzania where a large number of births occur at home and scales are not available. Newborn foot length is not the best anthropometric proxy for birthweight but was simple to implement at home in the first days of life when the risk of newborn death is highest
Birth weight · Cohen's kappa · Confidence interval · Context (archaeology · Foot (prosody · Kappa · Pregnancy · Statistics · Tanzania · Medicine · Neonatal and Maternal Infections · Neonatal Respiratory Health Research · Preterm Birth and Chorioamnionitis · Pediatrics
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |