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Community Mobilisation for Human Sample Collection in Sensitive Communities: Experiences from Granular Mapping of Schistosomiasis & Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ekiti Satate, Nigeria

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
Version 1 : Received: 13 September 2024 / Approved: 15 September 2024 / Online: 16 September 2024 (12:20:06 CEST)

How to cite: Agbana, T.; Omotade, O.; Aderogba, M.; Bell, D.; Solomon, J.; Animashaun, S.; Alabi, P.; Ajayi, O.; Akinwumi, A.; Popoola, S.; Bunda, A.; Diehl, J.-C.; Vdovine, G.; Makau-Barasa, L. Community Mobilisation for Human Sample Collection in Sensitive Communities: Experiences from Granular Mapping of Schistosomiasis & Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ekiti Satate, Nigeria. Preprints 2024, 2024091200. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1200.v1 Agbana, T.; Omotade, O.; Aderogba, M.; Bell, D.; Solomon, J.; Animashaun, S.; Alabi, P.; Ajayi, O.; Akinwumi, A.; Popoola, S.; Bunda, A.; Diehl, J.-C.; Vdovine, G.; Makau-Barasa, L. Community Mobilisation for Human Sample Collection in Sensitive Communities: Experiences from Granular Mapping of Schistosomiasis & Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Ekiti Satate, Nigeria. Preprints 2024, 2024091200. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1200.v1

Abstract

Community mobilisation is a vital process for raising awareness and increasing participation in healthcare interventions, research and programs that require human sample collection and mass management. In this report, we present the community mobilisation approach undertaken for the implementation of granular schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths operational mapping and assessment 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 was evaluated through three performance metrics: Community compliance rate, the participant response rate at community level and overall compliance response rate of the 4 most sensitive LGAs. Community compliance was 93.7% as sample collection was denied in 9 communities. Two other communities demanded return of collected samples. Participant response rate at the community level was 86.7%. Three of the 4 sensitive LGAs (based on previous assessment programs) 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 & awareness and the developed model has potential for improving participation rates in large healthcare assessments and intervention programs.

Keywords

community mobilisation; sample collection; advocacy; schistosomiasis mapping; STH; Ekiti

Subject

Public Health and Healthcare, Public Health and Health Services

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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