Western Kenya Integrated COVID-19 Response

Western Kenya Integrated COVID-19 Response Leveraging the Community Health Strategy, Youth, and Technology to Flatten the COVID-19 Curve and Improve COVID-19 Case Detection, Isolation and Management in Western Kenya

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04501458

Enrollment

200000

Registered

2020-08-06

Start date

2020-08-10

Completion date

2022-06-10

Last updated

2021-09-22

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Conditions

Covid19

Keywords

youth, community health, digital tools, capacity building

Brief summary

To respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, investigators will be deploying community health workers, equipped with mobile technology, and accompanied by youth to visit households door to door to screen for symptoms of COVID-19, isolate, test, and manage suspected cases of COVID-19. The community health workers and youth will educate households about preventive measures including frequent handwashing and home management of mild cases. Simultaneously, investigators will work with nurses, doctors, and clinical officers, to test and treat more severe cases of COVID-19 in health facilities. Our goals are: to visit every household in Siaya county covering a population of close to 1 million, and to train and support health workers working in 32 health facilities with oxygen capacity in Siaya to reduce the morbidity and mortality related to COVID19 and other conditions.

Interventions

OTHERTraining of youth, community health assistants and community health workers.

Training of youth, community health assistants, and community health workers in the screening, detection, contact tracing, prevention, and management of COVID-19 with concurrent maintenance of essential health services.

OTHERTraining clinicians in basic critical care and the management of severe COVID-19 cases

Training clinicians in basic critical care and the management of severe COVID-19 cases with concurrent maintenance of essential health services.

Study design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

CROSSOVER

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 100 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Youth aged 18 to 30 years old. * Active community health workers. * Facilities with oxygen capacity.

Exclusion criteria

* Individuals younger than 18 or older than 30 years old. * Inactive community health workers. * Facilities without oxygen capacity.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Mortality	3 months	Mortality related to COVID-19
Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Siaya	3 months	Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Siaya

Countries

Kenya

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026