Working With Community Health Workers to Increase ORS Use in Uganda
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Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to assess how free distribution and preemptive home delivery of oral rehydration salts (ORS) by community health workers affects ORS use. The investigators will measure the impact of the combination of the two interventions (free distribution + pre-emptive home delivery) as well as the impact of each intervention separately (free distribution without home delivery and pre-emptive home delivery without free distribution).
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Aug 2016
Typical duration for not_applicable
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
August 1, 2016
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
August 9, 2016
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
August 17, 2016
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
June 1, 2017
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
January 1, 2019
CompletedApril 8, 2019
April 1, 2019
10 months
August 9, 2016
April 4, 2019
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Oral rehydration salt (ORS) use
Caretaker-reported ORS use to treat a diarrhea episode in the last 4 weeks
Last 4 weeks
Secondary Outcomes (4)
Oral rehydration salt (ORS) with Zinc use
Last 4 weeks
Antibiotic use
Last 4 weeks
Time to Oral rehydration salt (ORS) use
Last 4 weeks
Time to zinc use
Last 4 weeks
Other Outcomes (2)
Oral rehydration salt (ORS) use
Last 7 days
Oral rehydration salt (ORS) use
current diarrhea episode up to 4 weeks
Study Arms (4)
Control
NO INTERVENTIONExisting standard of care.
Free Distribute+Preemptive Delivery
EXPERIMENTALCommunity 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.
Cost Sharing + Preemptive Delivery
EXPERIMENTALCHWs 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.
Free Distribution Upon Retrieval
EXPERIMENTALCHWs 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.
Interventions
Caretakers of children under 5-years-old will have access to free ORS and zinc
Caretakers of children under 5-years-old will have ORS and zinc delivered to their home
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Children aged 0-59 months that reside on a village recruited to participate in the study will be included in the intervention. Only children with a diarrhea episode 4-weeks prior to data collection will be included in the analysis.
You may not qualify if:
- Children without a diarrhea episode in the weeks prior to data collection will be excluded from the analysis.
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- University of California, Berkeleylead
- Makerere Universitycollaborator
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Who Masked
- OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
- Purpose
- HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
- Intervention Model
- FACTORIAL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
August 9, 2016
First Posted
August 17, 2016
Study Start
August 1, 2016
Primary Completion
June 1, 2017
Study Completion
January 1, 2019
Last Updated
April 8, 2019
Record last verified: 2019-04
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
Data will be made available to the public after the results are published