Version 1.1: May2017

Vaccine coverage study in [insert in detail where the survey takes place, i.e. region, district/province, country]

[insert months and year]

Training PROGRAM for Study teams
(2-days training including pilot study)

The program needs to be adapted to the planned study in the field (i.e. training hours, time and program, particularly if a full vaccination history survey is being done, when interviewers will need a good understanding of the country’s immunization programme and how to ask informant about their child receiving these).

[insert day], [insert date, i.e. months, DD, 20YY]
Hour
/
Time
/ Program
8:00 – 8:30 / 30’ / Introduction of interviewers and supervisors (phone list)
8:30 – 8:45 / 15’ / Introduction to study
8:45 – 9:00 / 15’ / Overview of measles:
Symptoms, treatment, transmission cycle, risk factors, measles in [insert country of the study], outbreaks
9:00 – 9:15 / 15’ / Measles immunization and coverage, [insert country of the study] routine immunization and campaigns
9:15 – 9:30 / 15’ / Discuss needed material for the field part of the study
9:30 – 10:20 / 50’ / Basic training on (research) ethics including the informed consent process. Discuss information to be provided to the household and the verbal consent (including wording in the local language and practicing)
10:20 – 10:50 / 15’ / TEA BREAK
10:50 – 11:50 / 60’ / Study method - How to select the households in the clusters?
What to do with refusals, households without children and empty houses?
11:50 – 12:30 / 40’ / Structure of vaccination coverage questionnaire
12:30-13:30 / 60’ / LUNCH BREAK
13:30 – 14:30 / 60’ / Discussion of question by question
14:45 – 16:15 / 90’ /

Role plays of interviews

16:15 – 16:30 / 15’ / Feed-back of role plays / End of first day
[insert day], [insert date, i.e. months, DD, 20YY]
Hour / Time / Program
8:00 – 9:30 / 90’ / Repetition:
-Selection of households
-Information for selected households
-Interviews and questions
9:30 – 10:00 / 30’ / Discuss practical issues for pilot study
10:00 – 13:00 / 180’ / Each team visits 10 households and fills-in 10 questionnaires
13:00- 14:00 /

LUNCH

14:00 – 14:45 / 44’ / Each team has a debriefing with the study supervisors
14:45 – 15:45 / 60’ /

Feedback session on completed forms and lessons learned. End of the pilot.

15:45 – 16:30 / 45’ /

Final instructions for all teams and supervisors for the first study day. A ‘training’ meeting will be held with associated staff such as logisticians, community liaisons, drivers and data clerks to explain the overall study and their roles and expectations

Agenda / Retrospective Mortality Survey /[insert country] / MSF, [20xx]