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CAPS Pneumonia and exposure to household air pollution in children under the age of 5 in rural Malawi 2014 - 2016

Malawi, 2014 - 2016
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Reference ID
MWI-MEIRU-CAPS-2014-v1
Producer(s)
Professor Kevin Mortimer, Professor Stephen Gordon
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Karonga HDSS
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
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Nov 14, 2025
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Nov 18, 2025
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  • Identification

    Survey ID number

    MWI-MEIRU-CAPS-2014-v1

    Title

    CAPS Pneumonia and exposure to household air pollution in children under the age of 5 in rural Malawi 2014 - 2016

    Country
    Name Country code
    Malawi MWI
    Study type

    Sample Survey

    Abstract

    Exposure to household air pollution is associated with an increased risk of pneumonia in children in low- and middle-income countries, however exposure-response data are limited and there are uncertainties around the extent to which biomass-fueled cookstoves can reduce these exposures
    Ethical approval COMREC 11/12/1308

    Unit of Analysis

    Individual

    Version

    Version Description

    v1: Edited data, first version, for internal use only

    Version Date

    2017-06-01

    Scope

    Notes
    1. Can an advanced cookstove intervention that substantially reduces biomass smoke exposure relative to an open fire prevent pneumonia in children under 5 years old in Malawi?
    2. How affordable and cost effective is the intervention from household, healthcare system and societal perspectives?
    3. What can be learned from trial participants and non-participants about adoption of the intervention that could inform effective implementation of the trial findings in the future?

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    CAPS was a cluster-randomized controlled trial with two arms of equal size comparing the effects of a cleaner-burning biomass-fueled cookstove intervention to the continued use of traditional open fire cooking on pneumonia incidence (primary outcome previously reported) and CO exposures (secondary outcomes) in children under 5 years of age living in rural Malawi over a 2-year period.

    Universe

    CAPS was a cluster-randomized controlled trial with two arms of equal size comparing the effects of a cleaner-burning biomass-fueled cookstove intervention to the continued use of traditional open fire cooking on pneumonia incidence (primary outcome previously reported) and CO exposures (secondary outcomes) in children under 5 years of age living in rural Malawi over a 2-year period.

    Children up to 4½ years old in Malawi allowing for a minimum of 6 months data collection before a child's 5th birthday.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Professor Kevin Mortimer Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
    Professor Stephen Gordon Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust
    Producers
    Name Role
    Professor Moffat Nyirenda Co-investigators
    Professor Nigel Bruce Co-investigators
    Professor John Balmes Co-investigators
    Professor Jonathan Grigg Co-investigators
    Dr Lesong Conteh Co-investigators
    Dr Magi Matinga Co-investigators
    Dr Dianne Terlouw Co-investigators
    Dr Daniel Peter Pope Co-investigators
    Dr Brian Faragher Trial statistician
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Abbreviation
    Wellcome Trust WT
    Medical Research Council
    UK Department for International Development
    EDCTP2 programme and the Academy of Medical Sciences
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name Role
    Tropical Clinical Trials Unit Trial co-coordinating Centre
    Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Trial co-coordinating Centre

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    F01_CAPS_Baseline_v14
    F02_CAPS_CRF_Follow_up_V16_draft
    F03_CAPS_Cookstove_and_Solar_Panel_CRF_v3.2
    F04_CAPS_Trace_Move_Withdraw_v3_draft
    F05_CAPS Verbal autopsy form_v3
    F06_CAPS_CRF_Monitor_v3.0
    Questionnaire_PW_OP_Costs_CAPS_sample 1

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2014-01-15 2016-01-29 1
    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face [f2f]
    Data Collectors
    Name Abbreviation
    Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit MEIRU

    Access policy

    Archive where study is originally stored

    Chilumba

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name
    Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit
    Access conditions

    This data is made available for licensed access under the following conditions:

    1. Data and other material provided by MEIRU will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions or organisations without MEIRU's written agreement.

    2. In the case of multi-centre datasets, data originating from a single contributing member centre of the collaboration may not be analysed or reported on in isolation without the express permission of the member centre concerned.

    3. No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and there will be no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any such discovery will be reported immediately to MEIRU.

    4. No attempt will be made to produce links between datasets provided by MEIRU or between MEIRU data and other datasets that could identify individuals.

    5. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports or other publications employing data obtained from MEIRU will cite the source, in line with the citation requirement provided with the dataset.

    6. An electronic copy of all publications based on the requested data will be sent to MEIRU.

    7. MEIRU, MEIRU research collaborators and the relevant funding agencies bear no responsibility for the data's use or interpretation or inferences based upon it.

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI-MWI-MEIRU-CAPS-2014-v1

    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    Themba Chirwa TC MEIRU Metadata entry, Editing and Documentation
    Chifundo Kanjala CK MEIRU Documentation planning and supervision
    Elizabeth Munthali EM MEIRU Metadata supervision
    Date of Metadata Production

    2019-10-22

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    version 1 (October 2019)

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