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| Name | Class |
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| Tulane University | OTHER |
| Sustainable Health Systems Sierra Leone | UNKNOWN |
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This is a three arm cluster randomized control trial to determine if proactive community case management (ProCCM) conducted over a short period of time improves care-seeking indicators for febrile illnesses in children in hard to reach (HTR) areas of Sierra Leone compared to integrated community case management (iCCM). The three arms include:
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Optimized standard of care for CCM plus ProCCM | Experimental | ProCCM will be implemented for two months near the start of the transmission season, and the existing program will be supplemented to ensure that HTR CHWs have all commodities needed for malaria testing and treatment and are adequately trained on SBCC messages to ensure activities are implemented as designed. |
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| Standard of care | Active Comparator | As in arm 1 without ProCCM |
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| Routine implementation (control) | No Intervention | No changes (business as usual) to iCCM, SBCC and stock management. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Proactive community case management | Behavioral | Community health workers conduct proactive visits to households in their community every two weeks for two months to screen for fever and test and treat febrile individuals for malaria. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| The proportion of children under five years of age with recent fever (within the past two weeks) who sought care from a CHW or public health facility on the same day or day after fever onset | Changes in care seeking will be assessed through three cross-sectional surveys. A baseline survey will be conducted prior to intervention implementation followed by a second survey at or near the end of the ProCCM intervention period and a final survey at the end of the malaria transmission season. | Cross sectional collected immediately post-intervention and 5 months post-intervention |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Cost per additional fever case promptly seeking care at qualified provider | Using project records and information from the cross-sectional surveys, the cost of delivering ProCCM, incremental SBCC and stockout management interventions will be determined with the incremental number of fever cases receiving prompt management by a qualified provider as the denominator. | 5 months post-intervention |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Annie Arnzen, MPH | Contact | 978-806-5837 | aarnzen@path.org | |
| Megan Littrell, PhD | Contact | mlittrell@path.org |
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| Strengthened SBCC and stock out mitigation | Behavioral | Ensure CHWs have all commodities needed for malaria testing and treatment and are adequately trained on SBCC messages to ensure activities are implemented as designed in the national strategy. |
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| Barriers and enablers of care-seeking behavior for febrile illness of people of all ages and how ProCCM impacts this behavior explored through focus groups | Focus group discussions will be held with community members post-intervention to assess barriers and enablers of care-seeking for febrile illness among people of all ages and how ProCCM impacts this behavior as reported by community members | End of the malaria transmission season which will be 2 months post intervention |
| Perceptions of the availability, cost, quality, and ease of seeking care for febrile illness explored through focus groups and in-depth interviews with community members. | Focus group discussions and in-depth interviews will be held with community members to explore their perception of the intervention and how it impacts their sense of the availability, cost, quality, and ease of seeking care for febrile illness. | End of the malaria transmission season which will be 2 months post intervention |
| Job satisfaction and perceived workload as described by CHWs during focus groups and interviews | Focus groups and in-depth interviews will be conducted with community health workers to explore their job satisfaction and perceived workload as it relates to the intervention. | End of the malaria transmission season which will be 2 months post intervention |
| Differences in touchpoints and connection between CHWs and health facility staff as described through qualitative analysis. | In-depth interviews will be conducted with health facility staff and peer supervisors to explore how the intervention influences their perceived linkages and touchpoints with CHWs. | End of the malaria transmission season which will be 2 months post intervention |