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Sharing Histories: Test of a Teaching Method for Community Health Workers

NCT02903602 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 600

Last updated 2016-09-16

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of an innovative methodology for training Community Health Workers that will improve their effectiveness in educating mothers to adopt best practice health behaviors in the home.

Conditions

  • Infant Nutrition Disorders
  • Health Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Sharing Histories training method for CHW

Female Community Health Worker training participants were led through a guided process of recalling and sharing their autobiographical memories of their personal experiences in the first 1000 days of each of their children (pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, newborn, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, infant diarrhea and hygiene, pneumonia). On the basis of memories, cultural beliefs and practices are identified and training content is built.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard training method for CHW

Female Community Health Workers were trained with standard participatory teaching method with three phases: identify knowledge, provide new knowledge, evaluate learning.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

    collaborator FED

  • Instituto de Investigacion Nutricional, Peru

    collaborator OTHER

  • Future Generations Graduate School

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laura C. Altobelli, DrPH · Future Generations Graduate School

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
23 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-10-31
Primary Completion
2014-09-30
Completion
2014-09-30

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