NCT02151578

Home Management of Malaria and Pneumonia

Home and Community Management of Fevers/Malaria and Pneumonia in Children Under-five: a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of an Integrated Approach in a Rural District of Burkina Faso

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 11,500 (actual)
• Sponsor: World Health Organization · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 59 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A well-implemented community-based program of early and appropriate treatment of fevers/malaria episodes and pneumonia,will improve child survival as measured by a reduction of the less than five mortality rate.

Detailed description

An integrated approach of home and community management of malaria and pneumonia may increase the proportion of children receiving prompt treatment; improve child survival as measured by a reduction of the under five mortality rate. To test this hypothesis, a cluster randomised controlled trial will be performed, involving children less than 5 years of age, in Burkina Faso using a community-based supplying community health workers (CHWs), a core group of mothers (KOLs) with Coartem and cotrimoxazole specially packed in age-specific blisters containing a full course of treatment. The study will be carried out in 111 clusters of a rural district in Burkina Faso where malaria and pneumonia are two major mortality causes in under five mortality.

Conditions

• Malaria
• Pneumonia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	home/community case management

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2012-09-01
• First posted: 2014-05-30
• Last updated: 2014-05-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Burkina Faso