Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00252928
Health Impact Study of Aquatabs in Tamale, Ghana
Health Impact Study of a Water Treatment Tablet, Aquatabs, in Tamale, Ghana
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 240 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Federal
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study to determine whether Aquatabs, a water treatment tablet, reduces diarrheal diseases in a peri-urban population of Tamale, Ghana.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Sodium dichloroisocyanurate (NaDCC) tablets | Intervention arm receives NaDCC tablets to use for to disinfect their household water for use for 20L of water. Ideally, disinfection occurs every day. |
| OTHER | Placebo | Placebo |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2006-07-01
- Completion
- 2006-11-01
- First posted
- 2005-11-15
- Last updated
- 2007-10-30
Locations
3 sites across 2 countries: United States, Ghana
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00252928. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.