ArticleJMIR formative research2022
Tailoring Mobile Data Collection for Intervention Research in a Challenging Context: Development and Implementation in the Malakit Study.
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Evaluation of a New Malaria Control Strategy Amongst Gold Miners Working Illegally in French Guiana (Malakit)
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- Practicability of a malaria rapid diagnostic self-test among artisanal gold miners in French Guiana: a cross-sectional study.Malaria journal · 2025Article
- Evaluating the impact of the Malakit intervention on malaria transmission in the Guiana Shield: a mathematical modelling study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Article
- Sexual Health Determinants During the Life Course and Migration of Haitian-Origin People in French Guiana: Protocol for the Parcours d'Haïti Biographical and Transdisciplinary Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Observational
- CUREMA project: a further step towards malaria elimination among hard-to-reach and mobile populations.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- Core principles of Malakit intervention for transferability in other contexts.Malaria journal · 2024Review
- Kinetics of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) activity during Plasmodium vivax infection: implications for early radical malaria treatment.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- Understanding the impact of mobility on Plasmodium spp. carriage in an Amazon cross-border area with low transmission rate.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- From an interventional study to a national scale-up: lessons learned from the Malakit strategy at the French Guiana-Suriname border.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- Implementation of a novel malaria management strategy based on self-testing and self-treatment in remote areas in the Amazon (Malakit): confronting a-priori assumptions with reality.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Self-diagnosis and self-treatment of malaria in hard-to-reach and mobile populations of the Amazon: results of Malakit, an international multicentric intervention research project.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundAn interventional study named Malakit was implemented between April 2018 and March 2020 to address malaria in gold mining areas in French Guiana, in collaboration with Suriname and Brazil. This innovative intervention relied on the distribution of kits for self-diagnosis and self-treatment to gold miners after training by health mediators, referred to in the project as facilitators.
objectiveThis paper aims to describe the process by which the information system was designed, developed, and implemented to achieve the monitoring and evaluation of the Malakit intervention.
methodsThe intervention was implemented in challenging conditions at five cross-border distribution sites, which imposed strong logistical constraints for the design of the information system: isolation in the Amazon rainforest, tropical climate, and lack of reliable electricity supply and internet connection. Additional constraints originated from the interaction of the multicultural players involved in the study. The Malakit information system was developed as a patchwork of existing open-source software, commercial services, and tools developed in-house. Facilitators collected data from participants using Android tablets with ODK (Open Data Kit) Collect. A custom R package and a dashboard web app were developed to retrieve, decrypt, aggregate, monitor, and clean data according to feedback from facilitators and supervision visits on the field.
resultsBetween April 2018 and March 2020, nine facilitators generated a total of 4863 form records, corresponding to an average of 202 records per month. Facilitators' feedback was essential for adapting and improving mobile data collection and monitoring. Few technical issues were reported. The median duration of data capture was 5 (IQR 3-7) minutes, suggesting that electronic data capture was not taking more time from participants, and it decreased over the course of the study as facilitators become more experienced. The quality of data collected by facilitators was satisfactory, with only 3.03% (147/4849) of form records requiring correction.
conclusionsThe development of the information system for the Malakit project was a source of innovation that mirrored the inventiveness of the intervention itself. Our experience confirms that even in a challenging environment, it is possible to produce good-quality data and evaluate a complex health intervention by carefully adapting tools to field constraints and health mediators' experience.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT03695770; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03695770.
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