NCT05372068

Cement flooRs AnD chiLd hEalth (CRADLE)

Cement flooRs AnD chiLd hEalth (CRADLE): a Randomized Trial in Rural Bangladesh

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 800 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Stanford University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This randomized trial in rural Bangladesh will measure whether installing concrete floors in households with soil floors reduces child enteric infection. The trial will randomize eligible households to receive concrete household floors or to no intervention and measure effects on child soil-transmitted helminth infection, diarrhea, and other enteric infections. The study will collect longitudinal follow-up measurements at birth and when children are ages 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months.

Conditions

• Ascaris Lumbricoides Infection
• Necator Americanus Infection
• Trichuris Trichiura; Infection
• Diarrhea

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Concrete household floor	Household soil floors will be replaced with concrete floors

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-24
• Primary completion: 2026-08-01
• Completion: 2026-09-01
• First posted: 2022-05-12
• Last updated: 2025-04-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Bangladesh