Working With Community Health Workers to Increase ORS Use in Uganda
NCT ID: NCT02870491
Last Updated: 2019-04-08
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
7949 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2016-08-31
2019-01-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Group 1 - Control: No intervention will take place. Caretakers will have standard access to ORS and zinc at local health facilities and pharmacies. Some CHWs in control villages could make household visits, however offers to sell diarrhea treatment preemptively are rare and CHWs are generally not the source of diarrhea treatment.
Group 2 - Household Visit + Free Distribution + Preemptive Delivery: CHWs will be provided a small incentive to visit all of the households in their catchment area that contain a child under 5-years-old (roughly 100 households) at the beginning of the study. CHWs will train caretakers on the dangers of diarrhea and the importance of ORS and zinc use. CHWs will then offer to give ORS and zinc to caretakers for free to store in their homes.
Group 3 - Household Visit + Cost Sharing + Preemptive Delivery: CHWs will be provided a small incentive to visit all of the households in their catchment area that contain a child under 5-years-old at the beginning of the study. CHWs will train caretakers on the dangers of diarrhea and the importance of ORS and zinc use. CHWs will then offer to sell ORS and zinc to caretakers at their standard subsidized price (roughly USD$0.40 in total per treatment course) to store in their homes.
Group 4 - Household Visit + Free Distribution Upon Retrieval: CHWs will be provided a small incentive to visit all of the households in their catchment area that contain a child under 5-years-old at the beginning of the study. CHWs will train caretakers on the dangers of diarrhea and the importance of ORS and zinc use. CHWs will then inform caretakers that they have ORS and zinc available for free that caretakers can retrieved from the CHWs home if needed. The average distance to the CHWs household is about 15 minutes.
Groups 2-4 compared to Group 1 measures the impact of each of the different ways of arranging the program. Group 3 compared to Group 2 measures the price effect. Group 4 compared to Group 2 measures the distance/convenience effect. Group 2 compared to Group 1 measures the combination of the price and distance/convenience effect.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
FACTORIAL
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Control
Existing standard of care.
No interventions assigned to this group
Free Distribute+Preemptive Delivery
Community health workers (CHWs) will deliver oral rehydration salts (ORS) and zinc for free to all households in their catchment area with a child under 5-years-old at the beginning of the study.
Free Distribution
Caretakers of children under 5-years-old will have access to free ORS and zinc
Preemptive Delivery
Caretakers of children under 5-years-old will have ORS and zinc delivered to their home
Cost Sharing + Preemptive Delivery
CHWs will visit all households with a child under 5-years-old at the beginning of the study and offer to sell ORS and zinc to caretakers at the time of the visit for them to store in their homes.
Preemptive Delivery
Caretakers of children under 5-years-old will have ORS and zinc delivered to their home
Free Distribution Upon Retrieval
CHWs will visit all households with a child under 5-years-old at the beginning of the study and inform caretakers that they have ORS and zinc available for free that caretakers can retrieved from the CHWs home if needed.
Free Distribution
Caretakers of children under 5-years-old will have access to free ORS and zinc
Interventions
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Free Distribution
Caretakers of children under 5-years-old will have access to free ORS and zinc
Preemptive Delivery
Caretakers of children under 5-years-old will have ORS and zinc delivered to their home
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
59 Months
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Makerere University
OTHER
University of California, Berkeley
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Other Identifiers
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ZW-03-28-1983
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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