18 A feasibility study for an evaluation of an adolescent sexual health intervention in rural Zimbabwe found that the planned classroom based programme was inappropriate, given cultural norms, teaching styles, and relationships between teachers and pupils in the country, and it was replaced by a community based programme.
Fortunately, Nalule has since been enrolled and supported by a Community Based Organisation that identified her during one of their community outreach sessions.
Counselling was provided by two clinics: a community based hospital (Stupa Hospital) that mainly caters for migrants; and a government clinic located within a central level hospital (Bir Hospital) with a wide range of health services.
The overall design of the mercury surveillance studies conducted by Dr Santos is a community based, cross sectional survey of Brazilian populations in Amazonia, focused on the states of Pará, Amazonas, Acre, and Rondônia, including gold mining sites, riverine communities, and populations without exposure to mercury.
ROCSS was supported by UNICEF to develop a community based learning programme that focused on non-formal literacy education and understanding of human rights, empowering women, men and young people to demonstrate local leadership on a range of issues including the abandonment of FGM/C.
Randomisation was by patient in 30 trials,w1 w2 w4-w18 w20-w32 w20-w32 by clinician in two trials,w3 w19 and by site of delivery of a clinician based intwoventrialsn one.w33 In the last three trials no attempt was made to account for clustering.
Overall, our study demonstrates that the delivery of a community based intervention by locally available, non-specialist human resources in collaboration with specialists is an acceptable and feasible approach for reducing the treatment gap for schizophrenia in LMIC.
A community based survey by Clausen et al [ 18] reported that 27.6% of the Kenyan current drinkers had had 5 or more drinks on at least one occasion in the preceding week, suggesting that binge-drinking was a common phenomenon in the Kenyan drinking population.
To reduce hypertension disparities in hypertension control by race and literacy, we used a community based participatory research (CBPR) approach to design and test an ongoing practice and patient level intervention in a rural region of eastern North Carolina that lies within the "stroke belt".
The COPSI study aimed to develop and evaluate a community based intervention delivered by community based lay health workers working in collaboration with mental health specialists.
27 In a secondary analysis, however, mortality was 34% lower in newborns who received a home visit by a government community based health worker during the neonatal period than in those who received no visit, with three quarters of the reduction among those visited during the first three days of life.
