NCT01085799

Education Intervention to Reduce Helminth Infections and Absenteeism in Grade 5 School-children

Effectiveness of a Post-deworming Education Intervention to Reduce Soil-transmitted Helminth Infections and Absenteeism in Grade 5 School-children in a Community of Extreme Poverty, Peruvian Amazon

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,101 (estimated)
• Sponsor: McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To efficiently control soil-transmitted helminths (Ascaris, Trichuris, and hookworm), WHO, PAHO, and others recommend the inclusion of an education strategy in school-based deworming programs. However, the effectiveness of such a strategy on the rate of STH re-infection and on education indicators, such as absenteeism, remains to be fully understood. The proposed research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a post-deworming education intervention targeted to Grade 5 school children enrolled in Belén's schools using a cluster-randomized trial design. Results will be used to inform school-based deworming programs in Peru and other similar endemic areas in Latin America and, indeed, around the world.

Conditions

• Infections

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Health Education Intervention	This is a health hygiene education strategy which encourages the pro-active role of both teachers and students and changes in attitudes and practices with the aim of keeping the level of parasite infection low, through increased knowledge.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-04-01
• Primary completion: 2010-10-01
• Completion: 2010-10-01
• First posted: 2010-03-12
• Last updated: 2011-03-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Peru