NCT02072629

HCU: Can VHVs Trained in ICCM Improve Care for Children

Healthy Child Uganda: Can Village Health Volunteers Trained in Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illness Improve Access to Care for Africa's Most Vulnerable Children?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4,071 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Calgary · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will assess how the current VHV (VHV=CHW, community health worker) scope can be expanded to include iCCM and if such group interventions can provide improved access to treatment for children. In rural SW Uganda, can iCCM provided by lay volunteers, increase the proportion of children with diarrhoea receiving ORS/Zn, ARI receiving anti-biotics, and fever/malaria receiving anti-malarials?

Conditions

• Diarrhoea
• Pneumonia
• Malaria

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Training of VHVs in iCCM	Village Health Volunteers will be trained in Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) of childhood illness

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-11-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2014-02-26
• Last updated: 2014-02-26