Expanding Coverage of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) Treatment in Kenya

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

1,600

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

June 3, 2024

Primary Completion Date

June 30, 2026

Study Completion Date

June 30, 2027

Conditions
Acute Malnutrition, SevereMalnutrition, ChildWasting
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

SWITCH intervention package

"* Addition of digital monitoring \& supervision by CHA~* Digitized registration of households by CHPs every 6 months~* Digital reminders to CHP to conduct home visit if a child has never been visited in 3 mo.~* Digital reminder for timely training to family MUAC of all family members through home visit by CHP when child turns 6 months of age.~* Platform for 2-ways messaging: biweekly SMS reminders to caregivers through the CHP's app; feedback by caregiver~* Community level screening based on weight and weight-for-age (WAZ) led by CHP every other month (aligned with Community Action Days),~* Digital calculation of WAZ.~* CHP and Growth Monitoring and Promotion refer to health facility if WAZ\<-3 to check on WHZ eligibility~* At the end of every wasting treatment consultation, compilation of the list of defaulters and non-respondents, for immediate transmission by CHA to relevant CHP through digital task of an instruction for immediate follow-up."

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

RECRUITING

Turkana South and Turkana East and Aroo, Lodwar

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

UNICEF

OTHER

collaborator

Kenyatta University

OTHER

lead

International Food Policy Research Institute

OTHER