"Effectiveness of Community Health Workers in Breast Cancer Prevention in Jumla: a Cluster Randomized Trials"

NAActive, not recruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

180

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

August 25, 2024

Primary Completion Date

August 25, 2025

Study Completion Date

September 25, 2025

Conditions
Breast CancerPrevention
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Implementation strategy - Health Promotion and Education-based intervention

Firstly, three broad strategies will be implemented in the intervention arm (use of advisory boards, sensitization, and linkage to care). The advisory board meetings will be held every month to discuss the progress and receive their feedback. Secondly, orientation and capacity building will be done by onsite coaching to community health workers at the health facility level on BSE. Those trained health workers will frequently capacitate FCHVs during monthly meetings. Then, FCHV will visit the community to be aware of BSE as well as they will be involved in a stigma reduction campaign. Sensitization to FCHVs through orientation and capacity building by providing 3 batch training to selected 3 wards, then FCHVs aware and practice the skills of BSE to the recruited participants during home visit and Thirdly, the suspected and identified cases will be linked by strengthening the referral mechanism of the health system and CHWs reminders for follow-up to cases.

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

Karnali Academy of Health Sciences, Jumla, Karnali, Nepal, Jumla

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Karnali Academy of Health Sciences

OTHER

NCT06869759 - "Effectiveness of Community Health Workers in Breast Cancer Prevention in Jumla: a Cluster Randomized Trials" | Biotech Hunter | Biotech Hunter