CompletedNot Applicable

Evaluation of a Home-based Community Health Worker Program in Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa

South Africa1,490 participantsStarted 2014-08-11

Plain-language summary

The purpose of this early Phase 2 comparison trial is to evaluate the impact of community health worker (CHW) home visitors on pregnant women and their children in a rural setting in the rural Eastern Cape of South Africa. The intervention provided by the CHWs targets underweight children, mothers living with HIV (MLH), mothers using alcohol, and depressed mothers with the goal of supporting pregnant women to improve birth outcomes, decrease the number of children born with a low birthweight, and develop child caretaking skills over time. UCLA has identified and matched four areas surrounding primary health care clinics: two intervention areas in which this CHW program has been running for one year, and two control areas without the program. Mothers in the research area are followed for one year after giving birth.

Who can participate

Age range0 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Pregnant women who are or become mothers living in the catchment area at the time of recruitment * Women not identified as psychotic or delusional based on the interviewer's judgment * Women able to provide informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to give informed consent * Inability to converse with the interviewer or the CHW * Miscarriage or stillbirth * Death of the infant * Death of the mother

What they're measuring

Composite outcome: Number of significantly improved child and maternal outcomes

Timeframe: 12 months

Trial details

NCT IDNCT03517878

SponsorUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2018-06-01

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