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The Use of Peer Referral Incentives to Increase Demand for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Zambia

3. juni 2016 opdateret af: Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The Use of Peer Referral Incentives to Increase Demand for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Zambia: an Impact Evaluation

The Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) and researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have partnered to pilot an peer-referral incentive program to increase voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) uptake in Zambia. The program allows each man coming for circumcision to refer up to 5 uncircumcised men in their social network for VMMC services and receive a monetary reward for each successful referral. The peer-referral program offers several advantages over traditional demand-creation approaches that rely on employing mobilizers or community health workers (CHWs). The amount of the monetary incentive will be analogous to the amount of incentive that CHWs might receive for comparable effort, making the program suitable for large-scale expansion. The effect of the peer-referral program on uptake of VMMC services will be evaluated using a rigorous methodology proposed by UNC researchers.

Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Detaljeret beskrivelse

The investigators propose a cluster randomized design in which the CIDRZ-supported VMMC clinics in the Southern Province in Zambia will be randomly selected to have a peer referral incentive program or not. In approximately 10 randomly selected intervention clinics, all men who reside in the catchment area of the clinic and come for male circumcision services will be eligible to receive 5 referral vouchers that will entitle them to receive monetary compensation for each voucher that is subsequently presented by a man who comes to the clinic and undergoes male circumcision. In 10 remaining clinics (control group), VMMC services will proceed as per the current standard of care, without peer referral incentives. All clinics including those allocated to the control group will have the standard mobilization and promotion activities that are used by CIDRZ.

In intervention clinics:

  • All eligible men seeking VMMC in intervention clinics will be asked if they want to participate in the study. This can happen on the day of the circumcision or within 7 days after the circumcision.
  • If yes, a file is open for them as "referring person". They receive 5 vouchers. They also receive MC brochures to distribute to friends.
  • As his friends or relatives come in as referrals, they are written in his file He can then claim reimbursement any time between the time a referred friend comes for VMMC and the expiration of the voucher. The referring person needs to bring the voucher in order to receive reimbursement.
  • Friends who come as referrals are given the possibility to become referring persons too, if within the intervention period. In that case, a new file is open for them as "referring persons".

Undersøgelsestype

Interventionel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

725

Fase

  • Ikke anvendelig

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

  • Zambia
      • Lusaka, Zambia
        • Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia

Deltagelseskriterier

Forskere leder efter personer, der passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kaldet berettigelseskriterier. Nogle eksempler på disse kriterier er en persons generelle helbredstilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.

Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

18 år til 49 år (Voksen)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ja

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Han

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Inclusion criteria for receiving vouchers: Uncircumcised men 18-49 years old seeking VMMC services and undergoing male circumcision at one of the clinics selected for the study during the 5 months of the active intervention.

Inclusion criteria for a successful referral: The referred person needs to be a previously uncircumcised man 18-49 and seeking VMMC services at that clinic during the 3 months of eligibility for voucher redemption.

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Studieplan

Dette afsnit indeholder detaljer om studieplanen, herunder hvordan undersøgelsen er designet, og hvad undersøgelsen måler.

Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Tildeling: N/A
  • Interventionel model: Enkelt gruppeopgave
  • Maskning: Ingen (Åben etiket)

Våben og indgreb

Deltagergruppe / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Andet: Uncircumcised men
The program allows each man coming for circumcision to refer up to 5 uncircumcised men in their social network for VMMC services and receive a monetary reward for each successful referral.
Andet: Peer-referral incentive program to increase VMMC uptake
The proposed intervention will allow men coming for male circumcision in randomly selected intervention clinics to refer up to 5 uncircumcised men in their social network and receive a monetary reward for each referred man who undergoes male circumcision. Men who come for circumcision will each be given 5 referral vouchers that they can then provide to uncircumcised men in their social network who may be interested in undergoing VMMC. If these uncircumcised men come to the CIDRZ VMMC clinics and undergo the circumcision procedure, they can present the referral voucher to clinic staff who will then retain the voucher until the man who made the referral comes to collect his incentive payment.

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Primary outcome will be the number of men coming for circumcision in each clinic during the intervention period divided by the adult male population in the catchment area of each clinic.
Tidsramme: 1 year
Primary outcome will be the number of men coming for circumcision in each clinic during the intervention period divided by the adult male population in the catchment area of each clinic. The calculated proportion in the intervention clinics will be compared to the calculated proportion in the control clinics using standard t-test.
1 year

Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere

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Sponsor

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Samarbejdspartnere

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia

Efterforskere

  • Ledende efterforsker: Harsha Thirumurthy, MD, UNC at Chapel Hill

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart

1. juni 2014

Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)

1. september 2015

Studieafslutning (Faktiske)

1. november 2015

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

5. december 2013

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

10. december 2013

Først opslået (Skøn)

16. december 2013

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Skøn)

6. juni 2016

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

3. juni 2016

Sidst verificeret

1. juni 2016

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Nøgleord

Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • CIDRZ 1310

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