Baseline data for the fishermen’s schistosomiasis and HIV services (FISH) cluster randomized trial in Mangochi, Malawi – User Guide

Permanent identifier

10.17037/DATA.00003363

Description

These are data collected during a baseline survey for the creating demand for fishermen’s schistosomiasis HIV services (FISH) cluster-randomized trial in Mangochi, Malawi. The data include socio-demographic characteristics as well as self-reported HIV testing, HIV treatment, schistosomiasis treatment and willingness to attend a beach clinic offered in a context of a study.

Data collection methods

The baseline survey involved face-to-face interviews with fishermen identified from 45 fishing communities (clusters). Data was collected using Open Data Kit (ODK) and Android tablets. A collection of boats and boat crews form the cluster and the data are only about men i.e. fishermen as restricted by the eligibility criteria.

Data analysis and preparation

Data from tablets were uploaded to an SQL server before being downloaded in csv format. Data cleaning was undertaken using Stata with analysis completed in R.

Geographic regions

Africa, southern Africa, Malawi

Key dates

Data collection commenced in November 2019 and ended in February 2020. Data were collected during COVID-19 first wave in Malawi with some pauses in between.
The final dataset was completed in September 2022.

Quality controls

Consistency, validity and all other checks were implemented within ODK. Additional data cleaning in Stata involved checking for duplicate entries and additional validity checks.

Population

Fishermen from Mangochi district in eastern Malawi, Africa.

Privacy

The following actions have been performed to de-identify the dataset:

Participant ID and Cluster ID have been replaced with new unlinked IDs
Remove Interviewer ID (intid)
Remove Date of birth (dob)
Remove beach_no
108 participant age values have been recoded as 66 or over, due to the small number of people within this group.
A small number of variables have been removed from the open dataset (art, art_vmmc_pzq12m, art_pzq12m). These are present in the controlled dataset.

Ethics

Organisation	Ethics ID	Other information
College of Medicine Research Ethics Committee (COMREC)	P.03/20/2975	Local ethics body in Malawi
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Ethics Committee	20-027	International ethics body in UK

Keywords

HIV, Malawi, HIV self-testing, schistosomiasis, fishermen

Language of written material

English

Project information

Project name	Funder/sponsor	Grant number
Creating demand for Fishermen’s Schistosomiasis and HIV services (FISH): piloting and delivery of a 3-arm cluster randomised control trial (cRCT) in Malawi	Wellcome Trust & National Institute for Health Research	216458_Z_19_Z

Creators

Forename	Surname	Faculty / Dept	Institution	Role
Augustine	Choko	Population Health / Public Health	Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Programme	Contact Person / Data Creator
Elizabeth	Corbett	Infectious and Tropical Diseases / Clinical Research	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	Supervisor

File description

Filename	Description	Access status	Licence
FISH_baseline_data_open	Socio-demographic data including schistosomiasis variables	Open	Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)
FISH_baseline_data_controlled	Socio-demographic data including HIV and schistosomiasis variables	Controlled	Data sharing agreement
FISH_baseline_data_codebook	Data dictionary for FISH Baseline dataset	Open	Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)
FISH_InfoSheet_consent_baseline_Eng_v1.0	Information sheet and consent form for FISH baseline data	Open	Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)