Skip to main content

Table 2 pSBI and pSBI plus death in the first 6 weeks of life among live born infants in ACT intervention clusters during the pretrial and trial periods

From: The Antenatal Corticosteroids Trial (ACT)’s explanations for neonatal mortality - a secondary analysis

pSBI

Characteristic

Intervention

Control

Adjusted RR (95 % CI) of pSBI Intervention vs. Controla

Adjusted RR (95 % CI) of pSBI Intervention vs. Control w/adjustment for pretrial pSBI %a

Pretrial, N

29,783

33,900

  

 pSBI, n (%)

3702 (12.4)

4814 (14.2)

0.95 (0.75–1.21)

 

ACT period, N

46,688

49,990

  

 pSBI, n (%)

6891 (14.8)

6945 (13.9)

1.01 (0.89–1.14)

1.05 (0.92–1.20)

  < 25th Pc

2718/10,479 (25.9)

2818/10,726 (26.3)

0.99 (0.89–1.11)

1.03 (0.92–1.15)

  ≥ 25th P

4058/36,007 (11.3)

4015/39,030 (10.3)

1.10 (0.95–1.28)

1.15 (0.98–1.35)

pSBI and Death

Characteristic

Intervention

Control

Adjusted RR (95 % CI) of pSBI & death Intervention vs. Controla

Adjusted RR (95 % CI) of pSBI & death Intervention vs. Control w/adjustment for pretrial pSBI %a

Pretrial, Nb

29,780

33,892

  

 Had pSBI and died, n (%)

681 (2.3)

829 (2.4)

0.96 (0.87–1.07)

 

ACT period, N

46,688

49,990

  

 Had pSBI and died, n (%)

1132 (2.4)

1018 (2.0)

1.16 (1.041.29)

1.17 (1.041.30)

   < 25th Pc

627/10,479 (6.0)

601/10,726 (5.6)

1.02 (0.90–1.16)

1.03 (0.90–1.17)

   ≥ 25th P

405/36,007 (1.1)

317/39,030 (0.8)

1.36 (1.131.64)

1.36 (1.121.65)

  1. aRelative risks and confidence intervals from log binomial or poisson models fit to the binary pSBI or pSBI and death outcome that included effects for randomization strata and intervention group, with and without adjustment for pretrial pSBI proportions at the cluster level. Relative risks significantly different from 1.0 are shown in bold
  2. b11 infants born in the pretrial period who had pSBI and were missing 6 week status were excluded (three intervention, eight control)
  3. cBirth weight percentile was missing for 436 (0.5 %) infants (intervention: 202, control: 234) with missing measured birth weight