HCU: Can VHVs Trained in ICCM Improve Care for Children

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Pneumonia; Diarrhoea; Malaria
• Interventions: Other: Training of VHVs in iCCM

• Registration Number: NCT02072629
• Lead Sponsor: University of Calgary

Brief Summary

This study will assess how the current VHV (VHV=CHW, community health worker) scope can be expanded to include iCCM and if such group interventions can provide improved access to treatment for children.

In rural SW Uganda, can iCCM provided by lay volunteers, increase the proportion of children with diarrhoea receiving ORS/Zn, ARI receiving anti-biotics, and fever/malaria receiving anti-malarials?

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-11
• Primary Completion: 2012-12
• Study Completion: 2012-12
• Status Verified: 2014-02
• Study First Submitted: 2014-02-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-02-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-02-25
• Study First Posted: 2014-02-26
• Last Update Posted: 2014-02-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 4071

Inclusion Criteria

• Women living in intervention and comparison villages
• Mother to at least one child under 59 months old

Exclusion Criteria

-No living child

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Training of VHVs in iCCM	Training of VHVs in iCCM	In these villages VHVs will be provided with iCCM training and equipped to support iCCM in their villages

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Absolute change pre/post intervention (VHV ICCM training) in proportion of U5s receiving (a) antimalarial for fever (b) ORS/Zn for diarrhea (c) Abx for pneumonia	pre- (Dec 2010) post- (Dec 2012) intervention (2 years)