News/Post

Rapid Mortality Mobile Phone Survey (RaMMPS)-Cyclone Freddy Follow-up Study (August – October 2023)


Posted on Oct 09, 2023 at 02:36


IPOR is working on the Rapid Mortality Mobile Phone Survey (RaMMPS)- Cyclone Freddy Follow-up study, in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), New York University- Abu Dhabi (NYU-AD), Malawi Epidemiology Intervention Research Unit (MEIRU), and University of Malawi (UNIMA).  IPOR calls again RaMMPS respondents who were interviewed about the impact of COVID-19, to see if they were also affected by the impacts of Cyclone Freddy. A Hurricane named Cyclone Freddy occurred in the southern part of Malawi in March 2023. So, IPOR is not calling the southern region RaMMPS respondents only, it also calls the central region RaMMPs respondents as a control. IPOR is using the Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) method (a telephone survey) to follow up with the 9,055 RaMMPs initial respondents. Apart from data collection, IPOR helped to develop study tools, manage fieldwork, provide bi-weekly reports, programming the study tool, data cleaning, quality assurance, and support data analysis. IPOR is hopeful that it will exceed a 50% success rate in following up on those individuals who were interviewed by phone between January 2022 and February 2023. The project started in August 2023 and is expected to end in October 2023.