Updates from the Field

SMART AfricaGhana- updates from the field


The SMART Africa-Ghana team has been hard at work in the field to also launch their pilot study. The team completed the randomization of the schools into the different study arms: the control arm, the treatment arm facilitated by the school health education program coordinators (SHEPs), and the treatment arm facilitated by the parent peers. In the past few weeks, the team consented 68 children and their caregivers in the control school. The research team recently completed the screening assessments with the consented caregivers. The team is currently finalizing the scoring of the screening assessments and will soon embark on collecting drawings from children for the illustration of the Dang-Malgu manual (Family Togetherness in Dagbani, the local language in the study area). Congratulations, Ghana Team, for your hard work in the field!