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Lay Fieldworker Led School Health Program for Rural Primary Schools

NCT03423615 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2909

Last updated 2018-02-06

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Summary

School-aged children in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) face significant challenges to their health and development which contribute to poor academic achievement. Multi-component comprehensive school health programs guided by the World Health Organization's (WHO) Health Promoting Schools (HPS) framework have been shown to positively impact health outcomes. Such programs are implemented widely throughout the world. However, in LMIC the scope and reach of school health programs are limited by human resource constraints. A key challenge to effective implementation has been the identification of effective delivery agents.

A potential alternative approach is to leverage existing community members as lay fieldworkers for the delivery of school health promotion. Our hypothesis is that lay-fieldworkers can effectively implement comprehensive school health programs in resource-constrained primary schools. This hypothesis will be tested by retrospectively analyzing data obtained during a 5-year pilot of a school health program (CHHIP) in rural primary schools of the Darjeeling Himalayas of India.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Comprehensive Health & Hygiene Improvement Program (CHHIP)

CHHIP is an intense, multi-component holistic school health program based on the WHO Health Promoting School framework and designed for implementation by lay fieldworkers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Broadleaf Health and Education Alliance

    collaborator OTHER

  • Darjeeling Ladenla Road Prerna (DLRP)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Colorado, Denver

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael Matergia, MD · Center for Global Health, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-02-01
Primary Completion
2016-11-15
Completion
2016-12-31

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