NCT03874143

Clinical Evaluation of the Use of an mHealth Intervention on Quality of Care

Clinical Evaluation of the Use of an mHealth Intervention on Quality of Care Provided by Community Health Workers in Southwest Niger

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 520 (actual)
• Sponsor: World Vision Canada · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Months – 59 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Under the World Health Organization's (WHO) integrated community case management (iCCM) Rapid Access Expansion Program (RAcE), World Vision Niger and Canada supported the Niger Ministry of Public Health to implement iCCM in four health districts in Niger in 2013. Community health workers (CHWs), known as Relais Communautaire (RCom), were deployed in their communities to diagnose and treat children under five years of age presenting with diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia and refer children with severe illness to the higher-level facilities. Two of the districts piloted RCom using smartphones equipped with an application to support quality case management and provide good timely clinical data. A two-arm cluster randomized trial assessed the impact of use of the mHealth application mainly on quality of care (QoC), but also on motivation, retention and supervision

Conditions

• Malaria
• Diarrhea
• Acute Respiratory Infection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	mHealth Intervention for Quality of Care	Does use of a specially equipped smartphone make a difference in the diagnosis and treatment by RCom of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea in children aged 2 to 59 months

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-01
• Primary completion: 2016-10-01
• Completion: 2016-10-01
• First posted: 2019-03-14
• Last updated: 2019-03-14