Currently, community health workers use a number of devices to diagnose the symptoms of pneumonia in children under five years of age. These range from mobile phone applications, manual respiratory rate timers to coloured counting beads.
This research project is comprised of a series of three research phases, using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, occuring over a 26 month period. The project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Photo: Malaria Consortium/Tine Frank
Currently, community health workers use a number of devices to diagnose the symptoms of pneumonia in children under five years of age. These range from mobile phone applications, manual respiratory rate timers to coloured counting beads.
This research project is comprised of a series of three research phases, using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, occuring over a 26 month period. The project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Photo: Malaria Consortium
Currently, community health workers use a number of devices to diagnose the symptoms of pneumonia in children under five years of age. These range from mobile phone applications, manual respiratory rate timers to coloured counting beads.
This research project is comprised of a series of three research phases, using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, occuring over an 26 month period. The project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Photo: Malaria Consortium
Currently, community health workers use a number of devices to diagnose the symptoms of pneumonia in children under five years of age. These range from mobile phone applications, manual respiratory rate timers to coloured counting beads.
This research project was comprised of a series of three research phases, using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, occuring over a 26 month period. The project was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Photo: Malaria Consortium/Tine Frank
Donor
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Partner Organisations
Ministries of Health
Scientific Advisory Committee
Start Date
08/11/2013
End Date
31/03/2016
This project identified the most accurate, acceptable, scalable and user-friendly respiratory rate (RR) timers and pulse oximeters for diagnosis of pneumonia symptoms in children by community health workers (CHWs) and first level health facility workers (FLHFW) in four low-income countries.
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in children under five in both Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. A large number of the children who die from pneumonia do so as a result of inappropriate treatment due to misdiagnosis of symptoms. In order to tackle the large number of childhood deaths from this preventable and treatable disease, ministries of health are investing in community health workers to deliver lifesaving diagnosis and treatment with antibiotics.
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Objective: The study objective is to identify the accuracy of RR timers and pulse oximeters for the detection of pneumonia symptoms by CHWs and FLHFWs in four low-income countries.
Methodology:
Objective: To investigate the feasibility of introducing RR and pulse oximeters devices in routine practice for CHWs and FLHFWs and to explore their acceptability to caregivers in four countries across sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
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