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Journal Article
Effectiveness of management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) through community health workers as compared to a traditional facility-based model: a cluster randomized controlled trial
2021
Overview
Purpose
We compared the impact of management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) by lady health workers (LHWs) at a community level with the standard CMAM program provided at the health facility.
Methods
A two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial was conducted in a rural district in sindh Pakistan. The primary outcome was recovery from SAM and secondary outcomes were relapse, defaulter and mortality rate.
Results
A total of 829 children were recruited in the trial (430 in intervention and 399 in control groups). No significant difference was noted in recovery rate between the intervention and control groups (79.2% vs 85.6%,
p
= 0.276). Similarly, no significant differences were noted in relapse (
p
= 0.757), weight gain (
p
= 0.609), deaths (
p
= 0.775) and defaulter rate (
p
= 0.324) across the groups. Compliance of RUTF was significantly higher in the control group (93%) than in the intervention group (87%),
p
< 0.000.
Conclusion
Our results showed no impact of SAM treatment on performance indicators of CMAM (recovery, relapse, death and default) between the standard CMAM programme performed at the health facility by the government and NGO staff and the programme performed at health house level by the LHWs in Pakistan. We recommend further robust trials in other settings to confirm our results.
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer Nature B.V
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