Clinical trials: Community Health Workers
Acute Respiratory Infection
Children's Automated Respiration Monitor (ChARM) for Child Pneumonia Diagnosis by Community Health Workers in Mali
The primary objective of this study is to estimate the impact of a self-monitoring tool (ChARM), used as a teaching/monitoring device, on the CHWs respiratory rate counting accuracy when assessing children under the age of 5…
- Trial name
- NCT03457519
- Testing
- Children's Automated Respiration Monitor (ChARM)
- Where
- 2 sites in Mali
- Volunteers
- 141 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Diego Bassani
Maternal Mortality, Access to Health Care
Project to Use Community Health Workers to Reduce Maternal Deaths
The purpose of this trial is to establish if several interventions will help women in rural Tanzania access health care services during pregnancy and at the time of delivery.
- Trial name
- EWH (NCT03024905)
- Testing
- Village meeting and travel vouchers, Birth kit with misoprostol
- Where
- Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 17,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bruyère Health Research Institute.
Child Developmental Delay, Child Development
CASITA Intervention for Children at Risk of Delay in Carabayllo, Peru
Building on an intervention for early child development from the SPARK Center in Boston, Socios En Salud (SES) pilot tested "CASITA" a community-based package to screen and treat young children (ages 1-3 years of age) diagnosed…
- Conditions
- Child Developmental Delay, Child Development, Community Health Workers, Low Income Population
- Trial name
- NCT03010306
- Testing
- CASITA
- Volunteers
- 61 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
Infant Nutrition Disorders, Health Behavior
Sharing Histories: Test of a Teaching Method for Community Health Workers
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…
- Trial name
- NCT02903602
- Testing
- Sharing Histories training method for CHW, Standard training method for CHW
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Future Generations Graduate School
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, Recurrence
Patient-Centered Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Study of Home-based Interventions to Prevent CA-MRSA Infection Recurrence
The overall goal of the project is to develop and evaluate a home-based intervention to prevent re-infection and transmission of Community-Acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in patients presenting to…
- Conditions
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, Recurrence, Staphylococcal Skin Infections, Antibiotic Resistance
- Trial name
- CAMP-2 (NCT02566928)
- Testing
- 2% mupirocin ointment, Chlorhexidine wash, Hygiene protocol
- Where
- 6 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 278 people
- Sponsor
- Clinical Directors Network
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
ComBaCaL HIV Prevention TwiCs
This cluster-randomized intervention is embedded in the ComBaCaL (Community-Based Chronic disease care Lesotho) cohort study (EKNZ ID AO_2022-00058, clinicaltrials.gov ID NCT05596773, Lesotho NH-REC ID 210-2022), a platform for…
- Trial name
- CoPrev (NCT07581600)
- Testing
- CoPrev model, Referral to the nearest responsible health facility
- Where
- 2 sites in Lesotho, Switzerland
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Child Behavior, Parenting
Natural Helpers and PCIT
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of a time-limited (i.e., 18 weeks) community health worker (CHW) intervention, referred to as the Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) plus natural helper (NH) model, on…
- Trial name
- NCT05400434
- Testing
- Standard Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Natural Helpers (NH)
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
Maternal-Child Health Services, Health Service Utilization
Integrated Community Based Health Systems Strengthening Preliminary Study in Kozah Togo
This preliminary study aims to inform the design and delivery of the integrated facility and community-based health systems strengthening (ICBHSS) model in four Kozah District health facilities over a period of 48 months.
- Trial name
- ICBHSS-Kozah (NCT03773913)
- Testing
- ICBHSS model
- Where
- Togo
- Volunteers
- 1,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Integrate Health
Sickle Cell Disease
Community Health Workers and mHealth for Sickle Cell Disease Care
This study will compare the effectiveness of two self-management support interventions-Community Health Workers (CHW) and mobile health (mHealth)-versus enhanced usual care to improve health-related quality of life and acute care…
- Trial name
- NCT03648710
- Testing
- Peer Community Health Worker, Mobile Health
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 405 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Vaccination, Hygiene
Microbe-Literacy Germ-Watching Workshops for Hygiene and Vaccine Acceptance in Sargodha, Pakistan
This cluster randomized controlled trial evaluated whether a single microscope-based "germ-watching" workshop, delivered by Lady Health Workers (LHWs) to mothers and female caregivers of children under three years, improves…
- Conditions
- Vaccination, Hygiene, Vaccine Hesitancy, Health Knowledge Attitudes and Practice
- Trial name
- MLI-Sargodha (NCT07771738)
- Testing
- Microbe-literacy germ-watching workshop
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 1,200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Development Synergies International (Private) Limited
Asthma
A Community Health Worker Home Intervention to Improve Pediatric Asthma Outcomes
The investigators propose to test the hypothesis that a home-based asthma intervention, the Wee Wheezers program, delivered by the Community Health Workers and tailored to the needs of the investigators community, will improve…
- Trial name
- NCT01003340
- Testing
- Wee Wheezers
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 188 people
- Sponsor
- Montefiore Medical Center
School Readiness, Preschool Enrollment
A Kinder Coaching Program With Community Health Workers "READY"
In this study, the investigators compare two novel primary care interventions (School Readiness Checklist vs. Kinder Coaching) for low-income parents, which were co-developed by parent, clinical, and educational stakeholders.
- Conditions
- School Readiness, Preschool Enrollment, Parent School Readiness Confidence
- Trial name
- READY (NCT07677618)
- Testing
- Kinder Coaching
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 480 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Oregon Health and Science University
High Perinatal Mortality, High Neonatal Mortality
Measuring the Impact of a Mobile Health System to Support Healthy Pregnancies and Improve Newborn Survival
The purpose of this community-based randomized controlled trial is to test whether the mCARE-II intervention package, delivered by the existing Government of Bangladesh community health workforce, will improve neonatal and…
- Conditions
- High Perinatal Mortality, High Neonatal Mortality, Low Antenatal Care Service Utilization, Low Postnatal Care Service Utilization
- Trial name
- mCARE-II (NCT02909179)
- Testing
- mCARE-II
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 113,539 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Malaria, Pneumonia
Assessment of Use of Rapid Diagnostic Testing in the Context of Home Management With ACTs
This study is to assess the value of incorporating a malaria RDT based strategy in HMM. The primary activity of the study wil be a two armed cluster randomised trial in two study sites in Uganda, one in Ghana and one in Burkina…
- Trial name
- NCT00720811
- Testing
- Artemether-lumefantrine combination, amoxycillin, paracetamol
- Where
- 4 sites in Burkina Faso, Ghana and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 6,456 people
- Sponsor
- Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Maternal Anxiety, Maternal Depression
Evaluating CBT Delivered by Community Health Workers on Maternal Mental Health and Infant Cognitive Development in Insecure Environments
This study evaluates a cognitive behavioral therapy intervention for mothers with symptoms of anxiety and depression living in insecure environments using a randomized controlled methodology.
- Conditions
- Maternal Anxiety, Maternal Depression, Infant Cognitive Development
- Trial name
- NCT02911441
- Testing
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Where
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Volunteers
- 262 people
- Sponsor
- Heartland Alliance
Mental Disease
Mental Health Reinforcement in Wayapi and Teko Communities in French Guiana : Evaluation of the Impact of a Mediation Based Activity in Municipalities of Camopi and Trois Saut in French Guiana
In French Guiana, Indigenous people experience high levels of psychological distress and higher rates of suicidal behavior than the rest of the population.
- Trial name
- MCS Impact (NCT07808801)
- Where
- French Guiana
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne
Covid19
Novel Face Mask Sampling for COVID-19: A Diagnostic and Public Health Tool
COVID-19 has become a global problem. There is an urgent need to improve the diagnosis and screening of patients and healthcare workers for COVID-19 in the UK.
- Trial name
- COVMASK (NCT04481646)
- Testing
- Face mask sampling
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 630 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Leicester
Type2 Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiovascular Diseases
Mil Familias Cohort Establishment: a Study to Understand Determinants of Diabetes and Its Complications Among US Latinos
The Mil Familias Cohort Establishment involves enrolling 1000 Latino families with at least one member in the family having type 2 diabetes, including children and youth, and measuring the 5 determinants of human health…
- Trial name
- NCT03830840
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 405 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
Perinatal Population Health
Enhancing Perinatal Population Health Through Community Care Hubs
Enhancing Perinatal Population Health through Community Care Hubs (CARE) is designed to test system level, organizational level, and workforce level strategies that may activate individual, community health worker (CHW), CHW…
- Trial name
- CARE (NCT07869212)
- Testing
- Integrated Data Systems, Learning Collaborative, Resiliency Skill Building
- Volunteers
- 8 people
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Sickle Cell Disease
Hydroxyurea Adherence for Personal Best in Sickle Cell Treatment: HABIT
The investigators propose that culturally aligned community-based interventions in our multi-ethnic sickle cell disease (SCD) population, augmented by task-focused communication technology, can improve self-managed adherence to…
- Trial name
- HABIT (NCT02029742)
- Testing
- Community Health Worker (CHW), Education
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Columbia University