TY - JOUR
T1 - Increases in correct administration of chloroquine in the home and referral of sick children to health facilities through a community-based intervention in Bougouni District, Mali
AU - Winch, P. J.
AU - Bagayoko, A.
AU - Diawara, A.
AU - Kané, M.
AU - Thiéro, F.
AU - Gilroy, K.
AU - Daou, Z.
AU - Berthé, Z.
AU - Swedberg, E.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the Director General of Health for Sikasso Region Dr Brahima Konr, the District Medical Officer for Bougouni District Dr Drissa Ouattara, and Maureen Cunningham, Patrick Connors and Lynn Lederer and the field staff of Save the Children/USA for their partnership and facilitation of all aspects of data collection during this study. We also wish to thank the other district level authorities, community leaders, and health workers who granted us permission to enter their communities and collect data. Finally, we acknowledge the contribution of Robert Black, Ruth Frischer, and Neal Brandes for their continued support and encouragement. This work was supported financially by the United States Agency for International Development through the Family Health and Child Survival Cooperative Agreement (HRN-A-00-96-90006-00) with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
PY - 2003/9
Y1 - 2003/9
N2 - Save the Children/USA in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Mali has established over 300 village drug kits in southern Mali since 1996. A cluster-randomized trial was conducted between November 2001 and February 2002 in 10 health zones of Bougouni District to evaluate an intervention to (i) improve the skills of the village drug kit managers to counsel parents on correct home administration of chloroquine (CQ), and (ii) increase the referral of sick children to community health centres (CHC). Children's carers were interviewed 5 d after the sale of CQ about knowledge of danger signs requiring referral, quality of counselling, administration of CQ, and referral. The intervention was associated with significant increases in knowledge of danger signs requiring referral, reported quality of counselling by the manger of the drug kit, and correct administration of CQ in the home. Parents reported that 42.1% of children in the intervention group were referred to the CHC by the drug kit manager compared with 11.2% in the comparison group (odds ratio = 7.12, 95% CI 2.62-19.38). CHC registers indicated that 87.0% of referrals recorded in drug kit referral notebooks arrived at the health centre. Further research is needed to increase the effectiveness of the counselling and the community referral mechanism tested in this study.
AB - Save the Children/USA in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Mali has established over 300 village drug kits in southern Mali since 1996. A cluster-randomized trial was conducted between November 2001 and February 2002 in 10 health zones of Bougouni District to evaluate an intervention to (i) improve the skills of the village drug kit managers to counsel parents on correct home administration of chloroquine (CQ), and (ii) increase the referral of sick children to community health centres (CHC). Children's carers were interviewed 5 d after the sale of CQ about knowledge of danger signs requiring referral, quality of counselling, administration of CQ, and referral. The intervention was associated with significant increases in knowledge of danger signs requiring referral, reported quality of counselling by the manger of the drug kit, and correct administration of CQ in the home. Parents reported that 42.1% of children in the intervention group were referred to the CHC by the drug kit manager compared with 11.2% in the comparison group (odds ratio = 7.12, 95% CI 2.62-19.38). CHC registers indicated that 87.0% of referrals recorded in drug kit referral notebooks arrived at the health centre. Further research is needed to increase the effectiveness of the counselling and the community referral mechanism tested in this study.
KW - Chloroquine
KW - Cluster-randomized trials
KW - Compliance
KW - Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
KW - Malaria
KW - Mali
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U2 - 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)80001-9
DO - 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)80001-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 15307407
AN - SCOPUS:2942739483
SN - 0035-9203
VL - 97
SP - 481
EP - 490
JO - Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
JF - Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
IS - 5
ER -