Community Health Workers Clinical Trial
Official title:
Evaluation of a Mobile Application Tool for Increasing Community Health Worker Home Visit Coverage: A Randomized Controlled Study
Verified date | September 2019 |
Source | University of California, San Francisco |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
Community Health Workers that work in collaboration with the NGO Muso Health and the Malian
government in both a peri-urban and a rural site in Mali, provide care proactively to the
population they form part of.
To work, they use a smartphone application that was developed as a job aid to support task
management, panel management and clinical decision support functions. For this study, a tool
called "Universal Health Coverage Mode" was designed to be integrated into the CHW
application to help Community Health Workers visit every household at least twice per month.
We hypothesize that Community Health Workers (CHWs) assigned to use Universal Health Coverage
(UHC) Mode, a mobile application tool, will achieve higher coverage of homes visited (defined
as being visited at least two times in a month) than those without this tool.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 199 |
Est. completion date | July 26, 2019 |
Est. primary completion date | July 26, 2019 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | N/A and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Community Health Workers serving the Tori (n=27) and Yirimadio (n=172) catchment areas conducting proactive home visits will be eligible to participate in the study Exclusion Criteria: - CHWs involved in pilot-testing UHC Mode prior to the trial will be excluded from the trial. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Mali | Muso | Bamako |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Ari Johnson, MD | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Medic Mobile |
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Primary outcome | The probability of a household receiving two or more visits per "workflow" month (a month being from the 26th of one month to the 25th of the next month). | 4 months | |
Secondary | Secondary outcome 1 | Number of days between household visits for each household served by CHWs | 4 months | |
Secondary | Secondary outcome 2 | Number of visits per household per "workflow"month | 4 months | |
Secondary | Secondary outcome 3 | Percentage of sick individuals in a household visited within 24 hours (among households with a sick person). | 4 months |
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