National Project Implementation Plan - NVBDCP

afford easy and credible access to the community, and thus have the potential
of playing a significant role in strengthening prevention activities at the village
level.
8.3 Size of study
Power analysis indicates that a sample of 4,350 households will be sufficient to
detect moderate improvements in net usage and fever treatment at standard
levels of statistical significance. 1,050 of these study households (in 35
villages) will be located in blocks that receive the case management treatment
of additional MTS and 1,050 will be in comparable and randomly selected
control blocks. Villages in additional blocks will be randomly assigned to one or
two prevention treatment arm or the prevention control arm. Each arm of the
prevention treatment will involve a sample of 750 households distributed
across 30 villages.
8.4 Data Collection and Analysis
The survey data will be collected in two phases. Baseline data collection will
occur during September – November 2008, the peak transmission season
following the rainy period. Intervention activities will then commence in the
January – March period of 2009. Follow-up surveys with the same households
will be fielded exactly 12 months after the baseline in September – November
2009, and then again in 2010. The follow-up survey will be partly based on the
baseline survey instrument but will also record detailed information on the
household responses to the experimental intervention in terms of adoption and
behavior change.
The data will be collected using a professional survey team and will be entered
in India with sufficient safeguards being taken to ensure accuracy and
respondent privacy. Supplementary information will be provided by the HMIS.
As soon as preliminary results are validated they will be shared with the
NVBDCP directorate.
* This activity is being financed as a separate non-lending task and is not part
of the financing provided through NVBDCP although its planning and
implementation are coordinated with the project.
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