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.