Western Kenya Integrated COVID-19 Response

Surgical Systems Research Group

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Covid19

Treatments: Other: Training of youth, community health assistants and community health workers.; Other: Training clinicians in basic critical care and the management of severe COVID-19 cases

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04501458

001

Details and patient eligibility

About

To respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, investigators will be deploying community health workers, equipped with mobile technology, and accompanied by youth to visit households door to door to screen for symptoms of COVID-19, isolate, test, and manage suspected cases of COVID-19. The community health workers and youth will educate households about preventive measures including frequent handwashing and home management of mild cases. Simultaneously, investigators will work with nurses, doctors, and clinical officers, to test and treat more severe cases of COVID-19 in health facilities. Our goals are: to visit every household in Siaya county covering a population of close to 1 million, and to train and support health workers working in 32 health facilities with oxygen capacity in Siaya to reduce the morbidity and mortality related to COVID19 and other conditions.

Enrollment: 200,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Youth aged 18 to 30 years old.
• Active community health workers.
• Facilities with oxygen capacity.

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals younger than 18 or older than 30 years old.
• Inactive community health workers.
• Facilities without oxygen capacity.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200,000 participants in 4 patient groups

Functional community health units

Experimental group

Description:

Community health units with active community health workers.

Treatment:

Other: Training of youth, community health assistants and community health workers.

Non functional community health units

No Intervention group

Description:

Community health units without active community health workers.

Health facilities with oxygen capacity

Experimental group

Description:

Health facility with regular oxygen capacity.

Treatment:

Other: Training clinicians in basic critical care and the management of severe COVID-19 cases

Health facilities without oxygen capacity

No Intervention group