Conflict-Affected Settings, Models of Care, Primary Health Care
Conditions
Brief summary
The overall objective of this research is to understand the PHC landscape in conflict-affected settings including choice of PHC delivery models and quality interventions used by humanitarian organisations
Detailed description
There is sparse evidence to guide the selection and design of primary health care (PHC) services that improves and maintains quality care in humanitarian settings. The Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, and Northeast Nigeria have protracted humanitarian crises. Various models of PHC are used in these settings; ensuring quality of PHC models of care is essential to improve health outcomes. We aim to explore how PHC models are selected by humanitarian organizations and through stakeholder engagement design a toolkit for evaluation of quality in PHC care delivery across different models. The specific objectives of the study are; 1. To map different primary health care delivery models used by public, private and humanitarian organization in the conflict affected settings of NWSW Cameroon and North East Nigeria by conducting a mapping survey 2. To explore the factors influencing the selection of primary health care delivery models used by humanitarian organizations to guide the selection of models of care and strengthening of programming efforts in conflict settings by conducting an exploratory qualitative study 3. To determine the coverage and gaps in services across the different PHC models to develop a pilot questionnaire to evaluate quality in conflict settings by conducting an exploratory qualitative study The humanitarian crisis in North West and South West regions of Cameroon and North East Nigeria, has led to the closure of 269/933 and 617/2367 health facilities respectively with over 2.21 million IDPs and 350,000 returnees(2, 3), creating a huge gap in the availability and accessibility of health services to affected communities. The need to conduct this study becomes even more pertinent to inform program developers and donors on key considerations to make before using different models of care, and how quality can be improved to foster sustainability
Interventions
BEHAVIORALProgram support
The intervention to be evaluated in this study is program design and selection considerations by humanitarian organisations. It will comprise of factors that motivate organisations to chose certain delivery models in providing health care in conflict-affected settings
Sponsors
Elrha
Reach Out Cameroon
University of Buea
University of Maiduguri
Herwa Community Development Initiative (HERWACDI)
University of Cambridge
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
21 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Male and female staff of humanitarian organisations, internally displaced persons (confirmed to be a resident of an IDP or host community); * Age 21 years of age or older; * Ability to provide informed consent or assent to participate in the research
Exclusion criteria
* Individuals who are mentally ill or with limitations to communicate well; * Those who cannot speak or understand the local languages so that they cannot understand the interviewer. * Those who refuse to provide consent to the study or who do not want to participate in the study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of frameworks developed | 12 months | Framework to guide humanitarian organizations in the selection of primary health care models will be collaboratively developed following the results from the study and stakeholders meeting |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of quality oversight toolkit developed | 12 months | Following the development of a framework to inform the selection of models of care, an oversight toolkit for selecting models of care and monitoring a pragmatic set of quality interventions (QI) will be developed. The toolkit will include a composite score drawing from scores across all domains. This will be used to give an overall assessment score of quality. |
Countries
Cameroon, Nigeria, United Kingdom
Contacts
Primary ContactLUNDI-ANNE OMAM N BIBAA
Backup ContactRosalind Parkes-Ratanshi
Outcome results
None listed