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Table 4 Description of participants for exit interviews

From: Health facility readiness to care for high risk newborn babies for early childhood development in eastern Uganda

Participant characteristics

Public HFs

PNFPs

p-value

 

N = 166

N = 35

N = 201

Average age of mother (SD)

24.1 (5.4)

21.4 (4.4)

0.008**

Age of baby in days (SD)

5.3 (4.3)

4.9 (2.3)

0.552

Male Sex

57.1

41.2

0.092

Average birth weight (SD)

2.6 (0.8)

2.2 (0.6)

0.006**

Diagnosis on discharge form

  

0.971

Asphyxia (difficulty in breathing)

62 (37.3)

15 (42.9)

 

Preterm/LBW

46 (27.7)

9 (25.7)

 

Neonatal infection

32 (19.3)

6 (17.1)

 

Convulsions

3 (1.8)

0 (0.0)

 

Jaundice

10 (6.0)

3 (8.6)

 

Others

13 (7.8)

2 (5.7)

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