Effects of Nursing Intervention on Routine Childhood Immunization Completion in Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria

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• Public title: Effects of Nursing Intervention on Routine Childhood Immunization Completion in Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria
• Scientific title: EFFECTS OF COMMUNITY-BASED NURSING INTERVENTION ON ROUTINE CHILDHOOD IMMUNIZATION COMPLETION IN IBADAN OYO STATE, NIGERIA
• Date of first enrolment: 09/07/2012
• Target sample size: 150
• Recruitment status: Complete
• URL: https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=2043
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Parallel: different groups receive different interventions at same time during study,Randomised,Stratified allocation ,Sealed opaque envelopes
• Phase: Not Applicable

Countries of recruitment

Nigeria

Contacts

• Name: Victoria Bolanle Brown
• Affiliation: Chief Nurse Tutor

• Name: Oyeninhun Abimbola Oluwatosin

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: For Children
(i) Being brought for first immunization visit.
(ii) Aged 0-12 weeks.
(iii) Any of the child¿s parents possessing at least a cell phone with valid phone number.
(iv) Child¿s family living within the community of the study site.

For Immunization providers
(i) Being a Primary Health Care (PHC) worker that vaccinate children (that is a nurse, a midwife, a Community Health Officer (CHO) or a Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs.)
(ii) Having worked for at least three months in the selected study health facility and
(iii) Non-participation in any form of immunization training in the last six months.


Exclusion criteria: For Children
(i) A child who has previously been brought for immunization visit
(ii) A child who is older than 12 weeks
(iii) A child whose parents do not possess at least a valid phone and phone number
(iv) A child whose mother is a temporary residence in the community of the study site

For Immunization Providers
(i) PHC health workers like doctors, health assistants, laboratory assistants, record assistants and pharmacy technicians.
(ii) Newly transferred immunization providers who have not spent up to three months in the study health facilities will be trained but will not be evaluated.
(iii) Immunization providers that have undergone training on immunization less than six months.



Age minimum: 0 Day(s)
Age maximum: 12 Week(s)
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Paediatrics

Paediatrics
Routine childhood immunization completion

Routine childhood immunization completion

Intervention(s)

Combination of immunization reminder/recall and training of immunization providers

Immunization providers' training

Control

Cell phone immunization reminder/recall of parents of children

Primary Outcome(s)

Immunization completed or immunization not completed (that is the receipt or non-receipt of all scheduled routine childhood immunization in Nigeria

Secondary Outcome(s)

To isolate the effect of each intervention independently and also to evaluate whether combination of both interventions is superior to only one intervention (that is to determine which of the three intervention strategies is most effective in increasing the percentage of routine childhood immunization completion

Secondary ID(s)

AD 13/479/209)

Source(s) of Monetary Support

The African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Secondary Sponsor(s)

The African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date: 07/02/2012
Contact:

Oyo State Research Ethical Review Committee