COHIN: Community health workers addressing Oral Health In Nouna

A cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of community health workers addressing population oral health needs in Nouna, Burkina Faso: the COHIN trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

PACTR

Registry ID

PACTR202508745984315

Enrollment

450

Registered

2025-08-29

Start date

2025-09-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-09-15

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Conditions

Oral Health

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: ? Adult (18+ years, majority aged 30-50 years) ? Female or male ? Member of a household within the HDSS in Nouna. ? The medical history of the participant must be available. ? Has provided written informed consent to participate in the trial. ? Able and willing to consent for study participation

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: • Acute or chronic severe infections (diabetes mellitus, leukaemia, malnutrition, anticoagulant therapy) that prevent performing study activities. • Edentulism (person is missing all teeth) • Stomatitis • Silver allergy • Pregnant women • Women in their first 6 months of breastfeeding • Unable or unwilling to consent for study participation

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Proportion of individuals with untreated active caries between study arms.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Prevalence of pain or infection among study participants.;Accuracy of oral screening by CHWs;Cost-effectiveness of the intervention. ;Safety of the intervention. ;Comparative evaluation of referrals from CHWs to the CSPSs and from there to the district hospital between intervention and control groups.;Precision of estimated ICC values based on collected data.	—

Countries

Burkina Faso

Contacts

Public ContactAve Pold

Section for Oral Health Heidelberg Institute of Global Health

ave.pold@med.uni-heidelberg.de+496221566999

Outcome results