Status:
COMPLETED
Mobile Health (mHealth) Tools to Improve Delivery Quality of a Family Home Visiting Intervention
Lead Sponsor:
Boston College
Collaborating Sponsors:
Caritas Freetown
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Conditions:
Parent-Child Relations
Behavioral Intervention
Eligibility:
All Genders
6-65 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This study will pilot a family-focused, behavioral health intervention while also developing and piloting mHealth tools to support Community Health Workers (CHWs) in Sierra Leone. This dual focus will...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Focus Group-User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Participants: Aged 18 or older; ability to attend 1-2 sessions (90 minutes per session)
- Family Participants: Families who are (a) a Sierra Leonean household with cohabitating caregivers (e.g., father/mother, mother/grandmother, mother/intimate partner), and child (aged 6-36 months) with both parents aged 18 or older and; (b) one parent scoring at least 62.5 on the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). The DERS cut-off score has been used successfully as a risk assessment screening tool in our prior and ongoing studies in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leonean caregivers scoring above this threshold on the DERS have reported significantly higher levels of severe physical punishment with their children as well as intimate partner violence. Both parents must agree to attend FSI-ECD sessions. If enrolled families have more than one child aged 6-36 months, we will include all eligible children as study participants.
- Community Health Worker Participants: CHWs who are 18 years or older and who are assigned to the Peripheral Health Unit that provides health services in one of our target communities.
- Community Health Worker Supervisor Participants: Supervisors are 18 years or older and oversee CHWs providing maternal and child health services
Exclusion
- Focus Group-User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Participants: Individuals younger than age 18 and individuals who do not meet inclusion criteria.
- Family Participants: Families who do not meet all inclusion criteria and/or who are experiencing active family crises (e.g., current suicidality or psychosis, cognitive impairment, ongoing divorce process).
- Community Health Worker Participants: Individuals under age 18 cannot be recruited to work as a CHW.
- Community Health Worker Supervisor Participants: Individuals under age 18.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 5 2021
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 16 2023
Estimated Enrollment :
180 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04481399
Start Date
August 5 2021
End Date
August 16 2023
Last Update
November 18 2023
Active Locations (1)
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University of Makeni
Makeni, Sierra Leone