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Effect of Behavior Change Communication on the Incidence of Pneumonia in Under Five Children: A Cluster Randomized
Jayashree Gothankar1, Prasad Pore2, Girish Dhumale3
1Department of Community Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra. Correspondence to: Dr Jayashree Gothankar, Department of Community Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University Medical College, Off Pune Satara Road, Pune 411 043, Maharashtra. jayashreesg@rediffmail.com.
Background:
Improving health education of the mother by providing community-based interventions is known to help control pneumonia.
Objectives:
To determine the effect of behavior change communication (BCC) activities for mothers in reducing the incidence of childhood pneumonia.
Design:
Open-label cluster randomized controlled trial.
Setting:
Urban slums and villages in two districs of Maharashtra.
Participants/Cluster:
Under-five children and their mothers from households in the randomly selected 16 clusters out of total 45 clusters, stratified into Pune and Sangli districts and further into rural and urban areas before randomization.
Intervention:
Three forms of BCC activities were imparted, viz., interactive sessions of education using pictorial mothers' booklet, screening of a audio-visual film, and virtual hand wash demonstration and use of flashcard. Routine care under the National health program was provided by the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workers in both the arms.
Outcome:
The primary outcome was pneumonia as per the IMNCI criteria assessed during fortnightly visits of the ASHA/anganwadi workers to the houses of under-five children, who received at least one follow-up visit in a period of one year.
Results:
The incidence of pneumonia in 1993 and 1987 under-five children in the intervention and control arm was 0.80 and 0.48 episodes per child per year, respectively (P=0.03).
Conclusions:
BCC for mothers is not sufficient to reduce the incidence of childhood pneumonia.
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