Evaluation of Essential Surgical Skills-Emergency Maternal and Child Health Training

NCT00880204 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: CRT2008
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 36
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

The aim of the proposed study is to determine if specific training in management of general, obstetric, neonatal and pediatric emergencies results in a change in practice of doctors working in emergency departments of public sector hospitals in three districts of Pakistan. The overall goal of the proposed study is to test the ability of a standard course (5-days training) to promote the provision of effective and evidence based practices in public sector hospital settings.

Conditions

Sepsis; Asthma; Heart Failure; Seizure; Coma

Keywords

Cluster Randomized Trial; ESS-EMCH; Neonatal; Maternal; Life threatening emergency event

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• To examine the ability of ESS-EMCH to change doctors' practices for managing obstetric, neonatal, and pediatric emergency care, including major trauma, in public sector hospital settings

  Practices

  1-2 months

Study Arms (2)

Trained doctors

EXPERIMENTAL

ESS-EMCH Training will be provided to doctors working in general emergency, pediatrics and obstetrics department in district hospitals.

Behavioral: ESS-EMCH training

No Training

NO INTERVENTION

No training will be given to doctors (act as controls)

Interventions

ESS-EMCH training BEHAVIORAL

The trainings of the ESS-EMCH programme are based on two well-tried and tested structured training methodologies of "Advanced Pediatric Life Support (APLS)" and "Management of Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma (MOET)".

Trained doctors

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 99 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• doctors working in emergency department, pediatrics and obstetric department in district hospitals

You may not qualify if:

• doctors at leave for more than 1 week
• working in other departments of district hospitals

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Child Advocacy International: lead
• John Snow, Inc.: collaborator
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID): collaborator

Study Sites (2)

CAI

Islamabad, Capital, 44000, Pakistan

Location

District Headquarters Hospital

Vehari, Punjab Province, Pakistan

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Sepsis; Asthma; Heart Failure; Seizures; Coma

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Infections; Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome; Inflammation; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Bronchial Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Lung Diseases, Obstructive; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Hypersensitivity; Hypersensitivity, Immediate; Hypersensitivity; Immune System Diseases; Heart Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Neurologic Manifestations; Nervous System Diseases; Signs and Symptoms; Unconsciousness; Consciousness Disorders; Neurobehavioral Manifestations

Study Officials

• Yasir B Nisar, MPH

  CAI

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Researcher

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 9, 2009
• First Posted: April 13, 2009
• Study Start: May 1, 2009
• Primary Completion: September 30, 2009
• Study Completion: November 30, 2009
• Last Updated: February 5, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-02

Locations

PA (2)