Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine
Conditions
Interventions
community units that do not receive the intervention
Intervention group composed of 10 community units
Sponsors
APHRC
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: The inclusion criteria for children under-five year is children whose parent are willing to participate in the study and are aged between 6 and 59 months and presenting with SAM, defined as either a MUAC of < 115 mm or the presence of bilateral pitting edema, without complications; or Presenting with MAM, defined as MUAC of between 115 mm and 125 mm. The CHVs who will be considered in this study are those who have been recruited and trained as CHVs by the MoH community strategy. The specific inclusion criteria for the current study: The CHVs (already recruited by MoH), should be willing to undertake and devote more of their time to the study
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: We will exclude all those children whose parents/guardians are not willing to participate in the study or not willing to consent to have them participate in the study. CHVs who are not willing to participate and those who have discontinue their community services or move out of the study area will be excluded.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| ?Cured rate ?Case-fatality rate/Death rate ?Defaulted rate ?Non-cured rate ?Average length of stay ?Average weight gain ?Coverage rate | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| ? Treatment of fever, pneumonia and diarrhea. ? Quality of care (CHVs performance and workload) Challenges and enablers in the effective integration of management of acute malnutrition into iCCM ? Cost per child recovered (from both a program and a societal perspective) ? Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for ICCM model ? Range of costs within the sensitivity analysis | — |
Countries
Kenya
Contacts
Public ContactELIZABETH MWANIKI
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Outcome results
None listed