Costing interventions in the field: preliminary cost estimates and lessons learned from an evaluation of community-wide mass drug administration for elimination of soil-transmitted helminths in the DeWorm3 trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To present a costing study integrated within the DeWorm3 multi-country field trial of community-wide mass drug administration (cMDA) for elimination of soil-transmitted helminths.

Design

Tailored data collection instruments covering resource use, expenditure and operational details were developed for each site. These were populated alongside field activities by on-site staff. Data quality control and validation processes were established. Programmed routines were used to clean, standardise and analyse data to derive costs of cMDA and supportive activities.

Setting

Field site and collaborating research institutions.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

A strategy for costing interventions in parallel with field activities was discussed. Interim estim

SUBMITTER: Galactionova K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8258667 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature