Standard Operating Procedures

We are pleased to share our procedures with the soil-transmitted helminth community.  These documents can be modified and extrapolated to meet your specific project needs.

Census and Cluster Demarcation

• Census informed consent form
• Administering the baseline census
• Administering census updates
• Administering the school facility survey

Data Management

• Set up mobile data collection devices
• Printing Household ID Barcodes
• Creating site registries for populating SurveyCTO surveys
• Mapping Geopoints in QGIS

Implementation Science

• Participant selection for individual interviews
• Participant selection for focus group discussions
• Individual interviews informed consent
• Focus group discussions informed consent
• Conducting focus group discussions
• Conducting individual interviews
• Participant selection for structural readiness survey
• Conducting structural readiness surveys
• Cluster selection for in-depth process mapping
• Conducting in-depth process mapping
• Conducting routine workflow tracking worksheets

Lab Work

• Kato-Katz preparation and analysis

Site Readiness

• Community Advisory Board
• Implementation Science Advisory Board
• Baseline stakeholder mapping
• Pre-trial sensitization
• Study supplies procurement, ordering, storage, and inventory
• Recruitment procedures

Surveys

• Administering the baseline longitudinal monitoring survey
• Follow up procedures for positive cases
• Administering the follow up longitudinal monitoring survey
• Administering the baseline cross-sectional survey
• Pre-MDA screening for treatment eligibility
• Conducting community-wide mass drug administration (MDA)
• Administration of albendazole in schools
• Completion of the SurveyCTO MDA Treatment log 
• Completion of the SurveyCTO MDA2 Treatment log
• Administration of coverage surveys
• Administering the urine sample validation survey
• Administering the treatment coverage urine survey