Hello,
I apologize for getting behind on my blogs. The past few weeks have been busy with wrapping things up on my project and then traveling around Laos. My interpreter Philavanh and I finished interviewing the control group of 100 parents at Mother & Child Health Hospital. Just to remind you the control group is made up of parents of children aged 6 to 18 months who did not receive any newborn care education. I’m still working on the data analysis but from just an initial comparison it looks like the intervention group is more likely to own a thermometer and know how to use it, and is also more confident about their knowledge of neonatal illness.
We also finally received the participant gifts that I had ordered after they returned from their detour to another city. The gifts are children’s t-shirts with the UCSF Children’s Hospital and Mother & Child Health Hospital logos on the back. Here’s a picture of the shirts and of our first t-shirt recipient:
I apologize for getting behind on my blogs. The past few weeks have been busy with wrapping things up on my project and then traveling around Laos. My interpreter Philavanh and I finished interviewing the control group of 100 parents at Mother & Child Health Hospital. Just to remind you the control group is made up of parents of children aged 6 to 18 months who did not receive any newborn care education. I’m still working on the data analysis but from just an initial comparison it looks like the intervention group is more likely to own a thermometer and know how to use it, and is also more confident about their knowledge of neonatal illness.
We also finally received the participant gifts that I had ordered after they returned from their detour to another city. The gifts are children’s t-shirts with the UCSF Children’s Hospital and Mother & Child Health Hospital logos on the back. Here’s a picture of the shirts and of our first t-shirt recipient:
I’ve also been spending some time on the neonatology ward at MCHH and taking call with a couple of the attendings. The patient load can vary from zero to completely full (10 infants) from day to day. The ward was renovated recently thanks to a grant from the Swiss-Lao Hospital Project. They also have two CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machines that were donated by an NGO from Vietnam. They also have a lot of monitoring equipment that has been donated by UCSF and the Swiss-Lao Project. But they do not have a working ventilator and this prevents them from being able to treat many pre-term infants with respiratory distress effectively. Here are some pictures of the neonatology ward:
I’ll write some more about the hospital next time as well as my homestay in a Lao village.
Ammu
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