Clinical Evaluation of the Use of an mHealth Intervention on Quality of Care

World Vision Canada

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Respiratory Infection; Diarrhea; Malaria

Treatments: Other: mHealth Intervention for Quality of Care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03874143

001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Under the World Health Organization's (WHO) integrated community case management (iCCM) Rapid Access Expansion Program (RAcE), World Vision Niger and Canada supported the Niger Ministry of Public Health to implement iCCM in four health districts in Niger in 2013. Community health workers (CHWs), known as Relais Communautaire (RCom), were deployed in their communities to diagnose and treat children under five years of age presenting with diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia and refer children with severe illness to the higher-level facilities. Two of the districts piloted RCom using smartphones equipped with an application to support quality case management and provide good timely clinical data. A two-arm cluster randomized trial assessed the impact of use of the mHealth application mainly on quality of care (QoC), but also on motivation, retention and supervision

Enrollment: 520 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 59 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children presenting symptoms of illness

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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520 participants in 2 patient groups

RCom equipped with a smartphone

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: mHealth Intervention for Quality of Care

RCom with paper-based system

No Intervention group