A Phase 4 interventional study of Clinical algorithm and microscopy diagnosis of malaria in Malaria, sponsored by Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences. Completed at 1 site in Tanzania. Open to participants aged 6 Months to 59 Months. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2008-06-02.
Sponsored by Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences · Phase 4, Interventional, and Health services research
General objective: To improve the quality of fever case management in children in government health facilities in Tanzania Hypothesis:The training of health workers, as well as provision, training and use of microscopes for malaria diagnosis will improve the treatment of clinical episodes of fever in children while reducing the amount and costs of drugs
PHC facilities were eligible for the study if they were rural government owned; accessible by road during rainy season; and within 3 hours by car from Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS), Dar es Salaam
All children attending the 16 PHC facilities under the study during daytime were enrolled if they fulfilled the following criteria:
Patients with severe disease and/or general danger signs requiring inpatient care according to the IMCI guidelines were admitted or referred to the health centers or the district hospitals
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This study's enrollment of 3,131 is above the median of 220 across 1,027 interventional studies indexed under Malaria.
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training in clinical algorithm plus microscopy
Procedure: Clinical algorithm and microscopy diagnosis of malaria
clinical algorithm
Procedure: Clinical algorithm and microscopy diagnosis of malaria
Control
Clinical alogarithm The content of the package included 1. description of signs and symptoms of malaria disease 2. history taking relevant to malaria and physical examination 3. identification of danger signs and severe illness for referral 4. appropriate treatment 5. counseling patients on the use of drugs. Malaria microscopy. contents 1. make thick blood smears from patients with fever and stain with Giemsa 2. identify and count malaria parasites 3. maintain the microscope and store blood slides.
the proportion of study children receiving prescriptions of antimalarial drugs in the respective arms
Time frame: Day 0
prescriptions of antibiotics, cost of drugs
Time frame: Day 0
health outcome of the patients
Time frame: Day 1-6, day 7
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