Community Mobilisation for Human Sample Collection in Sensitive Communities: Experiences from Granular Mapping of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ekiti State, South West, Nigeria
Community mobilisation is a vital process for raising awareness and increasing participation in healthcare interventions, research, and programmes that require human sample collection and mass management. In this report, we present the community mobilisation approach undertaken for the implementatio...
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| author | Temitope Agbana Omolade Omotade Moses Aderogba David Bell Jacob Solomon Saheed Animashaun Peace Alabi Oladimeji Ajayi Adebowale Akinwumi Samuel Popoola Alex Bunda Jan-Carel Diehl Gleb Vdovine Louise Makau-Barasa |
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| description | Community mobilisation is a vital process for raising awareness and increasing participation in healthcare interventions, research, and programmes that require human sample collection and mass management. In this report, we present the community mobilisation approach undertaken for the implementation of the operational mapping and assessment of granular schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The mobilisation was conducted in 177 communities/wards of the 16 local government areas. A total of 15,340 urine and stool samples were collected in 34 days. The efficacy and success of the strategy were evaluated through the following three performance metrics: community compliance rate, the participant response rate at the community level, and the overall compliance response rate of the four most sensitive LGAs. Community compliance was 93.7% as sample collection was denied in nine communities and two other communities demanded the return of the collected samples despite our mobilisation effort because of cultural bias and myths that connect the collection of stool and urine samples to ritual activities in the local context. The participant response rate at the community level was 86.7%. Three of the four sensitive LGAs (based on previous assessment programmes) demonstrated satisfactory compliance rates of 100%, while a response rate of 64.0% was computed for one of the LGAs. We believe our approach contributed to effective community mobilisation and awareness and that the developed model has the potential to improve participation rates in large healthcare assessments and intervention programmes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-aa78db91380b42fba065d76186dff4982025-08-20T01:53:58ZengMDPI AGTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease2414-63662024-10-0191125510.3390/tropicalmed9110255Community Mobilisation for Human Sample Collection in Sensitive Communities: Experiences from Granular Mapping of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ekiti State, South West, NigeriaTemitope Agbana0Omolade Omotade1Moses Aderogba2David Bell3Jacob Solomon4Saheed Animashaun5Peace Alabi6Oladimeji Ajayi7Adebowale Akinwumi8Samuel Popoola9Alex Bunda10Jan-Carel Diehl11Gleb Vdovine12Louise Makau-Barasa13AiDx Medical Bv, 2641 KM Pijnacker, The NetherlandsAiDx Medical Bv, 2641 KM Pijnacker, The NetherlandsThe Ending Neglected Diseases (END) Fund, New York, NY 10016, USAIndependent Consultant, Lake Jackson, TX 77566, USAThe Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Division, Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja 900242, NigeriaThe Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Division, Ekiti State Ministry of Health, Ado Ekiti 360101, NigeriaThe Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Division, Ekiti State Ministry of Health, Ado Ekiti 360101, NigeriaDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Science, College of Medicine, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti 362103, NigeriaDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Science, College of Medicine, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti 362103, NigeriaAiDx Medical Bv, 2641 KM Pijnacker, The NetherlandsAiDx Medical Bv, 2641 KM Pijnacker, The NetherlandsSustainable Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CE Delft, The NetherlandsSustainable Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CE Delft, The NetherlandsThe Ending Neglected Diseases (END) Fund, New York, NY 10016, USACommunity mobilisation is a vital process for raising awareness and increasing participation in healthcare interventions, research, and programmes that require human sample collection and mass management. In this report, we present the community mobilisation approach undertaken for the implementation of the operational mapping and assessment of granular schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The mobilisation was conducted in 177 communities/wards of the 16 local government areas. A total of 15,340 urine and stool samples were collected in 34 days. The efficacy and success of the strategy were evaluated through the following three performance metrics: community compliance rate, the participant response rate at the community level, and the overall compliance response rate of the four most sensitive LGAs. Community compliance was 93.7% as sample collection was denied in nine communities and two other communities demanded the return of the collected samples despite our mobilisation effort because of cultural bias and myths that connect the collection of stool and urine samples to ritual activities in the local context. The participant response rate at the community level was 86.7%. Three of the four sensitive LGAs (based on previous assessment programmes) demonstrated satisfactory compliance rates of 100%, while a response rate of 64.0% was computed for one of the LGAs. We believe our approach contributed to effective community mobilisation and awareness and that the developed model has the potential to improve participation rates in large healthcare assessments and intervention programmes.https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/9/11/255community mobilisationsample collectionadvocacyschistosomiasis mappingSTHEkiti |
| spellingShingle | Temitope Agbana Omolade Omotade Moses Aderogba David Bell Jacob Solomon Saheed Animashaun Peace Alabi Oladimeji Ajayi Adebowale Akinwumi Samuel Popoola Alex Bunda Jan-Carel Diehl Gleb Vdovine Louise Makau-Barasa Community Mobilisation for Human Sample Collection in Sensitive Communities: Experiences from Granular Mapping of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ekiti State, South West, Nigeria Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease community mobilisation sample collection advocacy schistosomiasis mapping STH Ekiti |
| title | Community Mobilisation for Human Sample Collection in Sensitive Communities: Experiences from Granular Mapping of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ekiti State, South West, Nigeria |
| title_full | Community Mobilisation for Human Sample Collection in Sensitive Communities: Experiences from Granular Mapping of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ekiti State, South West, Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Community Mobilisation for Human Sample Collection in Sensitive Communities: Experiences from Granular Mapping of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ekiti State, South West, Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community Mobilisation for Human Sample Collection in Sensitive Communities: Experiences from Granular Mapping of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ekiti State, South West, Nigeria |
| title_short | Community Mobilisation for Human Sample Collection in Sensitive Communities: Experiences from Granular Mapping of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ekiti State, South West, Nigeria |
| title_sort | community mobilisation for human sample collection in sensitive communities experiences from granular mapping of schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminths in ekiti state south west nigeria |
| topic | community mobilisation sample collection advocacy schistosomiasis mapping STH Ekiti |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/9/11/255 |
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