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Table 2 Causes of neonatal deaths by age (weighted)

From: Causes of deaths in neonates and children aged 1–59 months in Nigeria: verbal autopsy findings of 2019 Verbal and Social Autopsy study

 

Physician Coded Verbal Autopsy

Expert Algorithm Verbal Autopsy

Causes of deaths (%)

 

Causes of deaths (%)

 

Age Group

Intrapartum injury (95% CI)

Preterm (95% CI)

Severe infection (95% CI)

Other (95% CI)

P-value

Intrapartum injury (95% CI)

Preterm (95% CI)

Severe infection (95% CI)

Others (95% CI)

P-value

0 days

40.5 (34.7 – 46.9)

11.3 (7.9 – 15.8)

18.8 (14.4 – 24.1)

29.3 (24.0 – 35.3)

 

50.4 (44.1 – 56.5)

0.8 (0.3 – 3.3)

28.2 (22.8 – 34.0)

20.6 (16.1- 26.2)

 

1 day

26.1 (19.1 – 35.1)

8.7 (4.7 – 15.4)

48.7 (39.2 – 57.4)

16.5(11.0 – 24.8)

 

34.5 (26.2 – 43.4)

0.5 (0.0 – 6.3)

40.5 (32.3 – 50.1)

24.1 (17.3 – 33.0)

 

2–6 days

7.7 (4.8 – 12.2)

3.8 (2.0 – 7.7)

62.5 (55.6 – 68.8)

26.0 (20.3 – 32.3)

 

18.3 (13.6 – 24.1)

1.4 (0.5 – 4.5)

52.9 (46.1 –59.7)

27.4 (21.6 – 33.7)

 

7–27 days

3.9 (1.8 – 8.0)

4.0 (2.0 – 8.4)

59.0 (51.5 – 66.1)

32.9 (26.4 – 40.4)

 < 0.0001

6.3 (3.5 – 11.0)

1.2 (0.2 – 4.4)

58.4 (51.0 – 65.6)

34.1 (27.5 – 41.6)

 < 0.0001

1–59 months

Diarrhoea (95% CI)

Pneumonia (95% CI)

Malaria (95% CI)

Other (95% CI)

 

Diarrheal (95% CI)

Pneumonia (95% CI)

Malaria (95% CI)

Other (95% CI)

 

1–11 months

21.5 (18.4 – 24.9)

12.6 (10.2 – 15.5)

20.2 (17.3 – 23.6)

45.6 (41.8 – 49.6)

 

23.5 (20.3 – 27.0)

15.1 (12.5 – 18.1)

31.7 (28.1 – 35.4)

29.8 (26.3 – 33.5)

 

1–5 years

21.4 (19.4 – 23.5)

8.7 (7.4 – 10.2)

23.8 (21.7 – 26.0)

46.2 (43.7 – 48.7)

0.027

28.8 (26.6 – 31.2)

11.1 (9.6 – 12.8)

37.0 (34.6 – 39.4)

23.1 (21.1 – 25.3)

0.002

  1. CI Confidence Interval; “Other” for neonatal deaths: include cases suggestive of haemorrhagic disease, skin infections and sudden deaths, and jaundice. “Other” for age 1–59 months include: severe anaemia (without a specific cause), sickle cell anaemia, haemorrhagic fever, skin infections and sudden death