HCU: Can VHVs Trained in ICCM Improve Care for Children

Malaria Clinical Trial

— HCU:VHV/ICCM  

Official title:

Healthy Child Uganda: Can Village Health Volunteers Trained in Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illness Improve Access to Care for Africa's Most Vulnerable Children?

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02072629
• Other study ID #: E-22746
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 21, 2014
• Last updated: February 25, 2014
• Start date: November 2009
• Est. completion date: December 2012

Study information

• Verified date: February 2014
• Source: University of Calgary
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Health Canada
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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?

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 4071
• Est. completion date: December 2012
• Est. primary completion date: December 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

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

Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Diarrhoea
• Malaria
• Pneumonia

Intervention

Other:
• Training of VHVs in iCCM
Village Health Volunteers will be trained in Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) of childhood illness

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Calgary	Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	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)	No