An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of e-IMCI Implementation in Primary Health Care Clinics in South Africa.

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU · Aug 27, 2019

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ClinConnect Summary

Research Hypothesis The research hypothesis is that sick children attending primary health care (PHC) clinics who are managed by IMCI-trained health workers (HWs) using electronic Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelines (e-IMCI) receive improved quality of care compared to children managed by HWs using conventional paper-based IMCI (pIMCI).

Aim To evaluate the effectiveness of e-IMCI to improve care for sick children under five years attending PHC clinics in one district in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa.

Objectives

1. To assess the feasibility and acceptability of imple...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria for clinics:
• • • all PHC clinics in Ilembe district (N=31)
• Inclusion criteria for IMCI trained health workers:
• • • - All IMCI trained health workers in selected clinics who routinely provide services for sick children (have provided health services for sick children in the past six months)
• Inclusion criteria for Mothers:
• • • All mothers of sick children aged \< 5years attending participating clinics
• Exclusion Criteria for clinics:
• • PHC clinics where there is no IMCI trained health care worker will be replaced with another clinic in the district.
• • Community health Centres
• Exclusion criteria for Healthworkers:
• • Health workers who have not attended a full IMCI training course (minimum 10days or equivalent)
• • Health workers who are IMCI trained but do not regularly provide health services for sick children (eg the operational manager)
• Exclusion criteria for Mothers and children:
• • Mothers aged \<18years
• • Non-maternal caregivers
• • Mothers attending for well child services (child is not sick)