Other Clinical Trials Conducted by Keprecon

The Kenya Paediatric Research Consortium (Keprecon) has conducted numerous clinical trials and studies from 2008 to 2026, focusing on various aspects of child and maternal health. These include research on emergency triage, trauma care, infection prevention, antibiotic resistance, neonatal care, sepsis, COVID-19, pneumonia treatment, antimicrobial resistance, and breastfeeding support.

The studies span diverse areas such as clinical interventions, surveillance, data collection, and health service delivery redesign, highlighting Keprecon’s commitment to improving healthcare outcomes for children and mothers in Kenya.

 Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment Plus (ETAT+) and Hospital Survey2008-2025
 Primary Trauma Care (PTC) Course in hospital facilities2013-2014
 Pulse Oximetry Automation Study2014-2017
 Preliminary Exploration of Infection Prevention and Control and Antibiotic Stewardship to Avert Antibiotic Resistance in Kenyan Hospitals (IPC Study)2017-2018
 Neonatal Nursing Task Analysis: Describing the tasks done by nurses caring for the sick newborns in Kenyan health-facilities2017-2018
 Nursing observation study2017-2018
 Role of Nurses in Quality Health Care2018
 Neonatal Bacteremia (NeoBAC) surveillance study2020-2023
 Paediatric Rapid Sepsis Trigger (PRST) study2020-2023
 Hospital based Sentinel Surveillance for National COVID-19 Retrospective Data Collection2020-2021
 COVID-19 Surveillance and Research within KNH2020-2021
 Retrospective Address Data Collection2021-2022
 Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Standard Care Versus Steroids Plus Standard Care for Treatment of Pneumonia in Adults Admitted to Kenyan Hospitals. Steroids for pneumonia in adults in Kenya (SONIA Trial)2021-2024
 Clinically Oriented Antimicrobial Resistance Network (ACORN 2) Study implementation of clinical antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance of hospitalized patients with suspected acute bacterial infections2021-2024
 Clinical Information Network Antimicrobial Resistance (CINAMR)Project: A pilot microbial surveillance using hospitals linked to regional laboratories in Kenya2021-2024
 Retrospective Data Collection2021-2022
 RESPECT Study: Exploring the potential for using parent experiences of pre-term birth to improve care in LMICs, using video narratives and digital stories2022
 Steroids for Pneumonia Trial (SONIA) and Syndromic Surveillance study2023-2024
 Maternal & Newborn Health Service Delivery Redesign (SDR) feasibility assessment in selected county hospitals-Keprecon enumerators support2023-2024
 Primary Health Care (PHC) reforms in Kenya-Data collection in 24 counties with CIN sites (120 data collectors)2023-2024
 MN-optimize micronutrients of maternal supplements in Kenya-VIRUTUBISHO Project2024-2025
 The IBAMI-2 Study aims at Providing breastfeeding support during and after discharge from hospital to improve growth and development of malnourished infants recovering from a serious illness2024-2026