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Public - CommCare Evidence Base
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CommCare has an evidence base of more than 75 peer-reviewed studies, including eight randomized controlled trials. Together, these studies demonstrate CommCare’s positive impact on strengthening frontline healthcare systems, frontline worker capabilities, and client results.

Dimagi maintains the CommCare Evidence Base and adds new studies as they are discovered. This resource lives as an online, up-to-date repository, with new studies being shared and published frequently.

Dimagi maintains

You can download the CommCare Evidence Base

and adds new studies as they are discovered.

from Dimagi's Toolkits Page. 



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Featured Studies

Within the CommCare Evidence Base, two RCTs --  one in India and one in Tanzania -- demonstrate that clients of community health workers using CommCare have better behaviors and outcomes than the clients of community health workers who don’t use CommCare. An

  • An RCT by Mathematica Policy Research in India showed a 73% increase in having at least three antenatal care visits, a 58% increase in consuming 90 Iron-Folic Acid tablets, a 34% increase in modern contraceptives usage, and a 22% increase in immediate breastfeeding
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  • An RCT in Tanzania documented a 74% institutional delivery rate for clients whose FLWs use CommCare, compared to a 63% institutional delivery rate in the control group
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Over 10 years, scaling CommCare in Uttar Pradesh , India over a 10-year period would avert averted 149,468 neonatal deaths , at USD $205 per DALY averted and $5,865 per death averted. [Prinja 2018].You can download the CommCare Evidence Base from Dimagi's Toolkits Page. - or a 5.3% total reduction of neonatal deaths (Prinja 2018).

A 2017 study in India found that CommCare is more cost-effective than cholera and typhoid vaccines (Prinja, 2017).

A cardiovascular diseases training for CHWs that took 12 hours with paper took 3 hours with CommCare (Surka, 2014).