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Table 7 Overall rating of topics included in the survey in Nigeria

From: Using a priority setting exercise to identify priorities for guidelines on newborn and child health in South Africa, Malawi, and Nigeria

 

Topics

Median score*

IQR

 

Nigeria

1

Interventions for improving identification and early referral of high-risk pregnancies

6.0

0

2

Management of infants with clinical severe infection or critical illness

6.0

1

3

Management of birth complications in preterm babies

6.0

1

4

Education of mothers on cord care for newborns

6.0

1

5

Interventions for improving birth preparedness

6.0

1

6

Health system interventions to improve access to vaccination for children in hard-to-reach areas

6.0

1

7

Interventions for promoting early breastfeeding in neonates and exclusive breastfeeding of infants

6.0

1

8

Education of mothers on thermal care for newborns

6.0

1

9

Educational Interventions to improve caregivers' treatment seeking behaviours for diarrhoea

6.0

1

10

Educational interventions to improve the uptake of childhood immunization

6.0

1

11

WASH interventions for preventing diarrhoea in under-five children

5.5

2

12

Delamanid as long-dose regimens for treating children below 3 years with Multi-Drug Resistant//Rifampicin Resistant-TB

5.0

1

13

Interventions to improve the uptake of pneumococcal vaccines in children under five

5.0

1

14

Educational interventions for improving caregivers' treatment seeking behaviours for acute respiratory infections in children under five years of age

5.0

1

15

Home management of diarrhoea

5.0

1

16

Interventions to improve treatment coverage for severe acute malnutrition in children

5.0

1

17

Local nutritional formulations for under-fives with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM)

5.0

1

18

Interventions for improving TB case detection in children under five

5.0

1.5

19

Educational interventions for preschool and schoolteachers to improve immunization coverage

5.0

2

20

Involvement of Men in Postnatal Care and Maternal and Newborn Health

5.0

2

21

Antibiotics for prevention of neonatal sepsis or suspected neonatal sepsis

5.0

2

22

Community Health Workers Home visits for postnatal care to prevent neonatal sepsis

5.0

2

23

Prevention of Birth defects in the newborn

5.0

2

24

Prophylactic aminophylline for preventing apnea of prematurity

5.0

2

25

Identification and Management of Ophthalmia Neonatorum

4.1

1

26

Prevention of Trachoma in Children

4

2

27

Whole Body Massage for Growth and Development of Healthy Newborns

3

3

  1. Italics emphasised topics were rated of highest importance and went through for discussion at SG meetings
  2. *1: not important at all; 2: not important; 3: important; 4: very important; 5: critically important; 6: very critically important