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

NCT03874143 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 520

Last updated 2019-03-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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

Conditions

  • Malaria
  • Diarrhea
  • Acute Respiratory Infection

Interventions

OTHER

mHealth Intervention for Quality of Care

Does use of a specially equipped smartphone make a difference in the diagnosis and treatment by RCom of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea in children aged 2 to 59 months

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • World Health Organization

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ministry of Public Health Niger

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Toronto Metropolitan University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Global Affairs Canada

    collaborator OTHER

  • World Vision Canada

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Months
Max Age
59 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-03-01
Primary Completion
2016-10-01
Completion
2016-10-01

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