Barriers to Patients' Early Presentation, Diagnosis and Treatment in Childhood Hydrocephalus

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-03-01

Study Completion Date

2024-01-27

Brief Summary

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Patient with childhood hydrocephalus (HC) tend to present late in Low medium income countries (LMICs). This project will study the barriers leading to patients' and health system delay in patients with childhood HC. This will be done via a quantitative and qualitative study analysis. The data will be collected prospectively.

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Detailed Description

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Children less than 5 years of age with HC confirmed with either magnetic resonance or computerized tomographic images will be recruited. In addition, Hospital staff members, who have been working within the Neurosurgical unit for at least 5 years will be interviewed.

The patients' data that will be collected will include gender, age at presentation, socioeconomic class of parents (or guardians), religion, referral source, presenting complaint with its duration, physical findings, ventricular diameter. The Pre-presentation symptoms interval (PPI) will be defined as the number of days between the onset of symptoms and first presentation at any type of healthcare service centre (including primary healthcare centre, secondary health institutions); Presentation Interval (PI)- Number of days from symptoms to presenting at Neurosurgical centre; Pre-diagnostic interval (PDI) will be defined as the interval in days between symptoms and completion of pre-operative investigations. Patient interval (PI) will be defined as the number of days from the onset of symptoms and patient's first contact with the Neurosurgical center. Hospital interval (HI)- number of days from completion of investigations to surgical intervention. The collected data will be analyzed according to qualitative conventional content analysis. Nvivo software version 13 and Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) version 23 will be used for data analysis.

Conditions

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Hydrocephalus in Children

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Interventions

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Hydrocephalus

Interview

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All patients less than 5 years of age with HC confirmed with either magnetic resonance or computerized tomographic images
* Hospital staff members, who have been working within the Neurosurgical unit for at least 5 years.