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The Impact of Community Health Worker Training by US Health Volunteers on the Health of Rural Ugandans

NCT02045706 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1419

Last updated 2014-01-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

There are many trials measuring the impact of service work on volunteers themselves, but few studies measuring the impact of service on the local people. The purpose of this trial is to determine whether US and Ugandan health volunteers can make a measurable impact on the health of rural Ugandan villagers.

Conditions

  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

OTHER

Community Health Worker Trainings

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Washington University School of Medicine

    collaborator OTHER

  • Makerere University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Peace Corps

    collaborator OTHER

  • Uganda Chartered Health Net

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    collaborator OTHER

  • Edward O'Neil Jr, M.D.

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Edward J O'Neil Jr, MD · Omni Med

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-03-31
Primary Completion
2012-03-31
Completion
2012-03-31

Countries

  • United States
  • Uganda

Study Locations

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