The Impact of Community Health Workers on Child Malnutrition in the Philippines

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Conditions studied: Child Malnutrition

In brief

This study will focus on a new community health worker (CHW) program called 'Flourish', which is implemented by Philippine non-governmental organization (NGO) International Care Ministries (ICM). ICM's core program is 'Transform', which is a poverty alleviation program that focuses on households living in ultra-poverty (less than 0.50 United States dollars (USD) per person per day). Transform leverages local community networks to identify 30 participants from the most marginalized households in the community. ICM then provides these participants with 15 weeks of health and livelihood education, as well as with health interventions, including childhood malnutrition treatment. In ICM's Flourish program, one of the 30 participants in each Transform program is nominated by their peers to become an ICM-supported CHW. The CHWs will not only provide health services after the conclusion of the Transform program for their fellow Transform participants' households, but they will also serve an additional 50+ households in their communities. These additional 'non-Transform' households will be identified by asking the Transform participants to nominate peers in their social networks that share similar socioeconomic backgrounds and whose households are perceived to also benefit from CHW services. The primary aim of this research is to assess the impact of CHWs on the prevalence of acute childhood malnutrition in hard-to-reach households within low-income communities. The investigators hypothesize that this study will show that CHWs are able to reduce the prevalence of acute childhood malnutrition in hard-to-reach households within low-income communities.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05774314

Run by

International Care Ministries, Philippines

People needed

7650

Starts

2023-07-11

Expected to finish

2025-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-02-05

Who can join

Age: 1 and older, up to 12. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Participants in the study must meet at least one of the criteria:
• Transform program participant and member of the savings group formed at the end of Transform
• Nominated by a savings group member to participate in the study
• Nominated by the local public health unit (based on confirmed malnutrition status) to participate in the study

You may not qualify if…

• Except for members of the savings group, households cannot participate in the study if they have previously received ICM programs.

Where it is running

• ICM — Bohol, Philippines (enrolling)
• ICM — Dipolog City, Philippines (enrolling)
• ICM — Dumaguete, Philippines (enrolling)
• ICM — Koronadal, Philippines (enrolling)

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