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