Mapping Snakebite Risk in Kenya and Eswatini

Launched by LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE · Nov 6, 2023

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This study aims to understand whether spatial analysis methods can support the assessment and prediction of geographical variation in snakebite risk.

The investigators will analyse data collected from community and health facility surveys conducted in geographically, ecologically and demographically diverse areas of Kenya and Eswatini. Data sources will comprise existing snakebite incidence data from both countries and prospective data collected through adding snakebite questions to planned health/demographic survey platforms where feasible and conducting a small number of stand-alone clus...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• Household Screening Questionnaire:
• • All heads of household from randomly selected households.
• • To account for all household members
• Snakebite Details Questionnaire:
• • • All household members with a history of snakebite. If the household member is deceased, a responsible adult from the household will be asked to complete the questionnaire.
• Key informant interviews:
• • Key informants identified through a stakeholder mapping exercise as having power and/or influence in healthcare decision making or research with relation to Neglected Tropical Diseases/snakebite.
• • Willing and motivated to be interviewed
• Exclusion Criteria:
• Household Screening Questionnaire:
• • Households where the household head/a responsible adult is not present at first visit or revisit.
• • Household where the household head/responsible adult is unable or unwilling to give consent
• Snakebite Details Questionnaire:
• • • The household member is unable/unwilling to give consent and (in the case of the former) there is no responsible adult available/willing to complete the questionnaire on their behalf
• Key informant interviews:
• • A participant whose role and organisation has already been represented in the key informant interviews
• • Participant declines to be interviewed