Community Health Volunteers’ Role in Control of Paediatric Infections: Experimental Evidence on Impact of Health Insurance Cover in Kenya
- Conditions
- Pediatric infectious diseases including malaria, diarrheal and respiratory
- Registration Number
- PACTR202311542221577
- Lead Sponsor
- CEGA
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Other
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 312
To be included in the study, participants will have to be:
1. Currently registered to work as community health volunteers in Seme and Rarieda Sub-counties;
2. Have been actively working as a CHV for the previous one (1) year.
3. They will be adults of 18 years and above; regularly submit reports to their supervisors;
4. Will be residents of their current sub-locations for the next six (6) months;
5. Are willing to provide consent for participation; and
6. Have access to a phone.
Those who will be excluded from the study will be:
1. Those who are currently not registered to work as community health volunteers in Seme and Rarieda Sub-counties;
2. Have not been actively working as a CHV for the previous one (1) year.
3. Below 18 years of age;
4. Already having health insurance;
5. Not regularly submit reports to their supervisors;
6. Unlikely to be residents of their current sub-locations for the next six (6) months;
7. Unwilling to provide consent for participation; and
8. Having no access to a phone.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The number of under-5 children referred, using prescribed tools, for further treatment for infectious diseases
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method -Number of household (hh) visits by the CHV<br>-Number of village health activities organized and led by the CHV<br>-Maintenance of household register by the CHV<br>-Number of households registered as per policy guidelines<br>-Maintenance of records of community health related events<br>-Number of CHA/CHC monthly feedback meetings attended<br>-Implementation of Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) of Childhood diseases <br>-CHV kit satisfactorily stocked with health supplies (at least 50% of defined kit content)<br>-Community disease identification and treatment