Community Mobilization and Incentivization for Childhood Diarrhea and Pneumonia
NCT ID: NCT03594279
Last Updated: 2021-08-31
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
48 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2017-07-01
2020-12-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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This study will be conducted in two phases:
1. Formative phase: The objective of this phase is to assess the existing care seeking practices and care provision for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia and identify the existing barriers and facilitators for care seeking for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia.
2. Cluster Randomized Trial: (CoMIC Trial - Community Mobilization and Community Incentivization): The objective of this phase is to assess the impact of a community engagement and demand creation strategy involving an community-based incentive scheme on adherence to recommended preventive and curative practices for diarrhea and pneumonia among children under five years of age.
Study site: This study will be conducted in Tando Muhammad Khan, which is a rural district in the province of Sindh. This would a three and half year study with two year of intervention period.
Study design: This study will follow a mixed methodology approach with a formative research component followed by a prospective two arm cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT).
Formative Phase: The following activities will be conducted in the formative phase:
* GIS Mapping: for the whole district to map all the government health facilities, schools, major religious places (mosques), water supply sources and roads.
* Qualitative research: comprising of focus group discussion (FGDs) and in-depth interviews (IDIs) with all stakeholders. These would also identify the potential non-cash incentives that the community wants and could be attractive
* Baseline Household Survey: Baseline survey will be conducted at the household level and will gather information on health care practices pertaining to childhood diarrhea and pneumonia, immunization, socio-economic indicators, childhood nutrition indicators and WASH indicators. LHWs working in the study area and their geographic spread will also be identified.
Randomized Controlled Trial:
-Randomization: After the mapping and formative research, the clusters (villages) will be randomly allocated to two intervention arms and a control arm by an independent statistician in the ratio of 1:1:1.
Sample size: The sample size was calculated with a power of 0.8 and alpha of 0.05 giving 14 clusters per arm (maximum sample size). These clusters will be randomly allocated to three arms.
Intervention:
Arm 1: In Arm 1, separate male and female village committees (VC) consisting of prominent members of the community including local elites/leaders (6 to 8 in a group) in all the villages will be formed and they would be trained on specific messages regarding the prevention and management of childhood diarrhea and pneumonia. The VCs would carry out awareness and motivational activities for the uptake of the identified interventions. They would also facilitate two hour group meetings to be held twice every month in every village of their catchment area and focus on issues pertaining to childhood nutrition, WASH, vaccines and management of diarrhea and pneumonia in children. Apart from these, there would researcher led awareness sessions in this intervention cluster and specific sessions for children would also be conducted. These sessions would focus on providing education and encourage community participation. Group activities would also identify community level health, nutrition and sanitation problems, and to find locally feasible strategies to address them.
Arm 2: In the second intervention cluster; in addition to the interventions in Arm 1, the areas which improve the practices for preventive and curative strategies for diarrhea and pneumonia will receive community-based incentive. This would be a unique incentive scheme as all the previous financial incentive programs whether conditional or unconditional cash transfers, voucher schemes, social insurance schemes have targeted individuals and all these incentives were based on improving individual practices. The financial incentive proposed is unique as this initiative which would benefit the community as a whole and incentives based on improvement in the composite coverage of three indicators:
* Age-appropriate immunization 12-23 months
* ORS use for diarrhea
* Sanitation index (which is a score based on personal, household and environmental hygiene) The incentives would include structural benefits linked to health including tube wells, water supply, toilets in community/schools, water storage facility or any other incentive as decided with the respective village committees. The total cost of these incentives would be shared by the project (75%) and the community (25%), to improve ownership. The contribution from the community could also be in-kind including labor etc.
Arm 3: This arm will receive routine standard of care.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
NONE
Study Groups
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Community Mobilization
This arm will receive specific messages regarding the prevention and management of childhood diarrhea and pneumonia. The investigators will form village committees (VC) consisting of prominent members of the community (6-8 in a group) to carry out awareness and motivational activities for the uptake of the identified interventions.
Community Mobilization
Community Mobilization
Community Mobilization and Community Incentive
Community Mobilization and Community Incentive
Community Mobilization and Community Incentive
In this arm, along with the interventions in the community mobilization arm, community based incentives will also be provided. The clusters which improve the practices for preventive and curative strategies for diarrhea and pneumonia will receive community-based incentive including structural benefits linked to health including tube wells, water supply, toilets in community/schools, water storage facility or any other incentive as decided with the respective village committees.
Community Mobilization and Community Incentive
Community Mobilization and Community Incentive
Control
This arm will receive the routine standard of care.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Community Mobilization
Community Mobilization
Community Mobilization and Community Incentive
Community Mobilization and Community Incentive
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
OTHER
Aga Khan University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Dr Jai Kumar Das
Assistant Professor
Locations
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Aga Khan University
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Countries
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References
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Das JK, Salam RA, Padhani ZA, Rizvi A, Mirani M, Jamali MK, Chauhadry IA, Sheikh I, Khatoon S, Muhammad K, Bux R, Naqvi A, Shaheen F, Ali R, Muhammad S, Cousens S, Bhutta ZA. An innovative Community Mobilisation and Community Incentivisation for child health in rural Pakistan (CoMIC): a cluster-randomised, controlled trial. Lancet Glob Health. 2025 Jan;13(1):e121-e133. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00428-5.
Das JK, Siddiqui F, Padhani ZA, Khan MH, Jabeen S, Mirani M, Mughal S, Baloch S, Sheikh I, Khatoon S, Muhammad K, Gangwani M, Nathani K, Salam RA, Bhutta ZA. Health behaviors and care seeking practices for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia in a rural district of Pakistan: A qualitative study. PLoS One. 2023 May 16;18(5):e0285868. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285868. eCollection 2023.
Other Identifiers
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4676-WCH-ERC-17
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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