Publications by authors named "Ashfaq Bhat"
Context: In 2018, Government of India initiated Home-Based Care for Young Child (HBYC) program having five quarterly structured home visits for children age 3 to 15 months to promote early childhood development. Assess knowledge and practices of Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHAs), other health functionaries, and mothers related to HBYC. Cross-sectional evaluation design with ASHAs, AWWs, ANMs, ASHA, and mothers of 3 to 15 month's children as participants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific anti-spike IgM, IgG, and anti-nucleocapsid IgG antibodies during the second wave of the pandemic: A population-based cross-sectional survey across Kashmir, India.
Front Public Health
October 2022
Background: Within Kashmir, which is one of the topographically distinct areas in the Himalayan belt of India, a total of 2,236 cumulative deaths occurred by the end of the second wave. We aimed to conduct this population-based study in the age group of 7 years and above to estimate the seropositivity and its attributes in Kashmir valley.
Methods: We conducted a community-based household-level cross-sectional study, with a multistage, population-stratified, probability-proportionate-to-size, cluster sampling method to select 400 participants from each of the 10 districts of Kashmir.
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific IgG antibodies in Kashmir, India, 7 months after the first reported local COVID-19 case: results of a population-based seroprevalence survey from October to November 2020.
BMJ Open
September 2021
Objectives: We designed a population-based survey in Kashmir to estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific IgG antibodies in the general population aged 18 years and above.
Setting: The survey was conducted among 110 villages and urban wards across 10 districts in Kashmir from 17 October 2020 to 4 November 2020.
Participants: Individuals aged 18 years and above were eligible to be included in the survey.
Objective: To develop a composite index that serves as a proxy marker of quality of clinical service and pilot test its use in 11 special neonatal care units (SNCUs) across two states in India.
Design: Secondary data from SNCU webportal.
Setting: Special new-born care units in Rajasthan and Orissa.
Background: Malnutrition in all its forms remains a serious global concern, particularly affecting children, a highly vulnerable population group. Home visits during the first year of life using the community worker platform is an unexplored opportunity for making improvements in nutritional status.
Objective: To analyze the nutritional status (weight for age) of a cohort of infants between 3 and 12 months of age.
Objective: To generate evidence on the current situation of hospital care (emergency, inpatient and outpatient), for managing children presenting with diarrhea and pneumonia at 13 district hospitals in India.
Design: Facility-based assessment of district hospitals.
Settings: 13 district hospitals in four states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan.
Objective: An innovation of structured community based followup of SNCU discharged babies by ANM and ASHA was piloted under Norway India Partnership initiative. The current study describes the survival status and other outcomes among newborns discharged from SNCUs and followed at community level in first 42 days of life.
Methods: It is a retrospective cohort study on newborns discharged from SNCUs from 13 districts across four states of India.
Objective: To study special newborn care units (SNCUs) in terms of family participatory care (FPC) quality initiative as per Government of India guidelines in select public health facilities, and to document the perspectives of the doctors and mothers.
Design: Cross-sectional.
Settings: SNCUs with functional FPC units in the states of Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.