Clinical trial NCT05279105: Primary Health Care Delivery Models in Conflict Settings of Cameroon and Nigeria
Official title: Primary Health Care Landscape in Conflict Settings and Choices of Delivery Models in North West and South West Regions of Cameroon and North East Nigeria
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Models of Care
Primary Health Care
Conflict-Affected Settings
Lead sponsor: University of Cambridge
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Elrha
name: Reach Out Cameroon
name: University of Buea
name: University of Maiduguri
name: Herwa Community Development Initiative (HERWACDI)
First posted: 2022-03-15
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The Study population will be adults of age 21 years and above. The research will be undertaken with staff of humanitarian organizations and internally displaced populations. Project managers, project supervisors, grant writers and frontline workers of humanitarian organizations (UN agencies, international NGOs, national NGOs and CBOs) will be interviewed. Internally displaced persons in urban, peri-urban, rural and hard-to-reach areas. We will purposefully select participants from across the geographical area to ensure wide coverage of experiences/ views. In Cameroon and Nigeria, regions and states will be divided between rural, peri-urban and urban, and humanitarian organisations implementing programs in these areas will be group into urban, peri-urban and rural responders.

Brief summary: The overall objective of this research is to understand the PHC landscape in conflict-affected settings including choice of PHC delivery models and quality interventions used by humanitarian organisations

Detailed description: There is sparse evidence to guide the selection and design of primary health care (PHC) services that improves and maintains quality care in humanitarian settings. The Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, and Northeast Nigeria have protracted humanitarian crises. Various models of PHC are used in these settings; ensuring quality of PHC models of care is essential to improve health outcomes. We aim to explore how PHC models are selected by humanitarian organizations and through stakeholder engagement design a toolkit for evaluation of quality in PHC care delivery across different models.

The specific objectives of the study are;

1. To map different primary health care delivery models used by public, private and humanitarian organization in the conflict affected settings of NWSW Cameroon and North East Nigeria by conducting a mapping survey
2. To explore the factors influencing the selection of primary health care delivery models used by humanitarian organizations to guide the selection of models of care and strengthening of programming efforts in conflict settings by conducting an exploratory qualitative study
3. To determine the coverage and gaps in services across the different PHC models to develop a pilot questionnaire to evaluate quality in conflict settings by conducting an exploratory qualitative study

The humanitarian crisis in North West and South West regions of Cameroon and North East Nigeria, has led to the closure of 269/933 and 617/2367 health facilities respectively with over 2.21 million IDPs and 350,000 returnees(2, 3), creating a huge gap in the availability and accessibility of health services to affected communities. The need to conduct this study becomes even more pertinent to inform program developers and donors on key considerations to make before using different models of care, and how quality can be improved to foster sustainability

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Male and female staff of humanitarian organisations, internally displaced persons (confirmed to be a resident of an IDP or host community);
* Age 21 years of age or older;
* Ability to provide informed consent or assent to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria:

* Individuals who are mentally ill or with limitations to communicate well;
* Those who cannot speak or understand the local languages so that they cannot understand the interviewer.
* Those who refuse to provide consent to the study or who do not want to participate in the study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of frameworks developed
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Number of quality oversight toolkit developed
timeFrame: 12 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Buea
country: Cameroon
facility: Reach Out Cameroon
state: South West Region
city: Maiduguri
country: Nigeria
facility: Herwa Cdi
city: Cambridge
country: United Kingdom
facility: Lundi-Anne Omam Ngo Bibaa
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Cambridge
name: Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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