Improving malaria treatment practices in children using mobile phone text-messaging in Kenya

Completed

• Conditions: Malaria; Infections and Infestations; Plasmodium falciparum malaria

• Registration Number: ISRCTN72328636
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Oxford (UK)

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-11-27
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 864

Inclusion Criteria

1. Health workers in intervention facilities prior to delivery of intervention are:
1.1. Working at Government dispensaries/health centres
1.2. Providing outpatient consultations
1.3. Providing informed consent

2. During the cross-sectional surveys, the health facility is:
2.1. Government facility
2.2. Dispensary/health centre level
2.3. Providing outpatient services

3. Health workers:
3.1. Any cadre providing outpatient services on the survey day
3.2. Providing informed consent

4. Children:
4.1. Below 5 years of age
4.2. Weighing 5 kg and above
4.3. Either sex
4.4. Coming for outpatient consultation on survey day
4.5. Mothers or guardians providing informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

1. Health workers without mobile phones in intervention facilities
2. During cross-sectional surveys, the health facility is:
2.1. Private, mission or NGO facilities
2.2. Non-functional during the survey period
3. Health workers not attending enrolled patients on the survey day
4. Children with follow-up chronic diseases, traumas and burns

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified