Developing, Implementing and Evaluating Effective Community-facility Interactions to Improve Blood Availability and Transfusion in Three Distinct County Settings in Kenya

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Blood Transfusion
• Interventions: Other: Community-Facility Transfusion Committee (CFTC)

• Registration Number: NCT06142825
• Lead Sponsor: University of Minnesota

Brief Summary

The strategy of the CoBAnK study is to establish and enable the function of Community-Facility Transfusion Committees (CFTCs) incorporating diverse representation involving hospital, community, and county leadership, to improve blood availability and transfusion at the point-of-care.

Detailed Description

The strategy of the CoBAnK study is to establish and enable the function of Community-Facility Transfusion Committees (CFTCs) incorporating diverse representation involving hospital, community, and county leadership, to improve blood availability and transfusion at the point-of-care. The CFTC strategy will be evaluated across nine transfusing facilities across three counties in Kenya (two intervention and one control site in each county). While the intervention will be tested in "beta" facilities (i.e., facilities without a co-located blood bank) in each county, blood availability will also be measured in "alpha" facilities (i.e., facilities with co-located blood banks) in the three counties, which supply blood to the beta facilities.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-11-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-11-15
• Study First Posted: 2023-11-22
• Status Verified: 2025-03
• Study Start: 2025-03-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-03-12
• Last Update Posted: 2025-03-13
• Primary Completion: 2026-07-01
• Study Completion: 2026-07-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 9

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
CFTC	Community-Facility Transfusion Committee (CFTC)	Community-Facility Transfusion Committees (CFTCs) will be established at the facilities randomized to this arm.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Met blood need	The time required for the hospital laboratory to process a request for blood for transfusion, up to two weeks.	The proportion of transfusion requests resulting in dispatch of blood products from the laboratory

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Minnesota; 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States