HCU: Can VHVs Trained in ICCM Improve Care for Children (HCU:VHV/ICCM)

University of Calgary

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malaria; Pneumonia; Diarrhoea

Treatments: Other: Training of VHVs in iCCM

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02072629

E-22746

Details and patient eligibility

About

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?

Enrollment: 4,071 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

-No living child

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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4,071 participants in 1 patient group

Training of VHVs in iCCM

Experimental group

Description:

In these villages VHVs will be provided with iCCM training and equipped to support iCCM in their villages

Treatment:

Other: Training of VHVs in iCCM