Evaluation of an Information Management and Communication System for Population-wide Point-of-Care Infant Sickle Cell Disease Screening
Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
A cluster randomized trial (CRT) of the novel sickle cell disease (SCD), M-health based SCD Information Management and Communication system SIMCS vs routine new born screening strategy in health care centres in Uganda to evaluate impact on access screening, coordination of care and clinical outcomes
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: t
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• Providers of child health and maternity services at selected hospitals Infants born or attending child health and maternity services at selected hospitals . Infants are the targeted age-group in this study because this is the ideal age to screen for SCD and prevent complications and mortality that generally occurs early, by 5 years old. The infants will be recruited at birth or at vaccination visits
Locations
Other Locations
Uganda
Nalufenya Childrens
RECRUITING
Jinja
Contact Information
Primary
Mwanje Kavuma Mwanje
mwanjemobo@gmail.com
+256783132151
Time Frame
Start Date: 2026-03-25
Estimated Completion Date: 2027-06-30
Participants
Target number of participants: 24000
Treatments
Placebo_comparator: Traditional centralised testing to point of care testing
Routine new born screening strategy in health care centres in Uganda
Active_comparator: Information management and communication system
Mobile Information Managment system
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Makerere University
Collaborators: National Institutes of Health (NIH)