- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05284773
Screening for Acute Malnutrition
Screening for Acute Malnutrition: a Cluster Randomized Trial Comparing Caregivers to Community Health Workers in Burkina Faso
This project includes a pilot cluster-randomized trial of the efficacy of training caregivers to screen for acute malnutrition (AM) in children aged 6-59 months using mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) in Burkina Faso. The pilot will be conducted to establish the feasibility of procedures and preliminary outcome data to inform the sample size calculations and design of a future longer-term, fully powered cluster-randomized trial. Forty communities enrolled in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Child Health with Azithromycin Treatment (CHAT) trial will be randomly selected for this pilot and randomized to receive the caregiver training intervention or no additional intervention. All communities will continue to receive standard of care screening for AM according to national guidelines, which includes community-based screening for AM by community health workers using MUAC every 6 months. A baseline census will be conducted before randomization to enumerate the eligible population of caregivers and children 6-59 months old and measure MUAC. A final census with MUAC measurement will be conducted 6 months later (primary outcome). Data will be collected on all children presenting to the Centre de Santé et Promotion Sociale (CSPS) for malnutrition to track secondary outcomes.
During intervention training, we will also conduct a diagnostic accuracy study to evaluate the validity of caregiver screening by comparing the MUAC measurements of caregivers against the gold standard measurement of the experienced health personnel conducting the training. Also during training, intervention communities will be randomized to one of two training approaches: training by caregivers or training by health agents and adherence to the protocol during follow-up monitoring visits will be compared to determine effectiveness of training.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Kieran O'Brien, PhD
- Phone Number: 4155142163
- Email: kieran.obrien@ucsf.edu
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Elodie Lebas, RN
- Phone Number: 5104232245
- Email: elodie.lebas@ucsf.edu
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Cluster level:
- Enrollment in the CHAT trial
- Location outside of the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS)
- Population size < 2000 people
- Verbal consent of the village leader
Individual level:
- Residence in a village participating in the CHAT trial
- Caregiver or guardian of children aged 6-59 months (for intervention training)
- Age 6-59 months (for MUAC screening and some outcome assessments)
- Verbal consent from caregiver or guardian
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: intervention + standard of care
Caretakers of children 6-59 months old living in communities assigned to the intervention arm will be trained to detect malnutrition using MUAC on their children weekly.
Caretakers living in communities assigned to the intervention will also receive usual standard of care.
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Study personnel will train caregivers to conduct weekly AM screening using the color-coded MUAC tape.
AM screening will involve identifying the midpoint of the child's right arm, wrapping the tape around the mid-point, inserting one end of the tape through the slit at the other end, pulling the tape secure, and reading the measurement based on the color bands.
Caregivers will be trained to refer children with yellow or red readings to the nearest CSPS and will be provided with a referral slip to do so.
Caregivers will be informed of the signs, symptoms, and consequences of malnutrition as well as the available nutritional programs.
Study personnel will conduct monthly supervision visits including brief refresher trainings.
In all study communities, standard of care screening for AM will continue.
This includes biannual community-based screening by community health workers as well as weekly malnutrition days led by the CSPS.
Study personnel will train a group of caregivers to perform AM training of all caregivers living in their communities.
they will instruct caregivers to conduct weekly AM screening.
Training will include the same information as the communities receiving training by Health workers: MUAC training and how to interpret MUAC as well as key concepts of malnutrition.
Caregivers will be trained to refer children with yellow or red readings to the nearest CSPS and will be.
In all study communities, standard of care screening for AM will continue.
This includes biannual community-based screening by community health workers as well as weekly malnutrition days led by the CSPS.
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No Intervention: standard of care
Caretakers of children 6-59 months living in communities assigned to the standard of care arm will receive usual acute malnutrition screening.
This includes biannual community-based screening by community health workers as well as weekly malnutrition days led by the Centre de Sante et Promotion Sociale (CSPS).
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Community-level mean mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC)
Time Frame: 6 months
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Community-level mean MUAC in children 6-59 months of age as assessed during the final census after 6 months of intervention
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6 months
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Sensitivity
Time Frame: 6 months
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Diagnostic accuracy study comparing caregiver measurements to the gold standard measurement from study personnel will include sensitivity as an outcome measure, defined as the number of true positives divided by the total number of cases of global acute malnutrition (MUAC < 125 mm)
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6 months
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Specificity
Time Frame: 6 months
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Diagnostic accuracy study comparing caregiver measurements to the gold standard measurement from study personnel will include specificity as an outcome measure, defined as the number of true negatives divided by the total number of children without global acute malnutrition (MUAC < 125 mm)
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6 months
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Cases referred
Time Frame: 6 months
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Number of cases of AM referred to the CSPS during the study period as collected at the CSPS
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6 months
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Mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) at admission
Time Frame: 6 months
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MUAC among children 6-59 months of age at admission to CSPS nutritional programs during the study period as routinely collected at the CSPS
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6 months
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Effectiveness of caregiver training
Time Frame: 6 months
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Adherence to protocol in the communities with caretakers training compared to health workers training as measured by caregiver survey and supervisor monitoring checklist.
Relevant items from each data collection source will be summarized into a single summary score.
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6 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Catherine Oldenbrug, ScD, University of California, San Francisco
- Principal Investigator: Kieran O'Brien, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Anticipated)
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
Study Completion (Anticipated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 17-24230
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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