What caregiver’ count as neonatal danger signs? A systematic review and meta-analysis of South East Asian countries

Abstract

Objective: To assess the prevalence of Knowledge of caregivers for neonatal danger signs. Registered in PROSPERO [CDR42022338605.] Methodology: PubMed, Embase, Scopus and Google Scholar were searched, Cochrane I2 statistics for heterogeneity and Random effects model for reporting the results was used. Egger tests with funnel plots were used to investigate publication bias. Result: Overall pooled prevalence of caregiver's knowledge towards IMNCI and other neonatal danger signs was 36.6 % (95 % CI = 28, 46.1) and 55.1 % [95 % CI = 46.9, 53] respectively. Conclusion: The knowledge of caregivers towards neonatal danger signs was inadequate.

Keywords

• Neonate
• Danger signs
• South-east Asia
• Systematic review
• Knowledge