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A Comparison of Respiratory Sample Collection by a Parent or by a Healthcare Worker

NCT00966069 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 64

Last updated 2016-03-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators are aiming to learn more about respiratory infections in young children in the community. To prepare for a larger project, the investigators are conducting this study to get information about the best way to collect and transport respiratory specimens from young children. The investigators would like to test whether parents are more likely to collect a simple respiratory specimen themselves during a child's illness, compared to the likelihood of specimen collection when a home visit is made by a health care worker. Further, the investigators want to compare the likelihood a virus will be identified in both groups.

Conditions

  • Respiratory Tract Infections

Interventions

OTHER

Parent collection

Parent collection of anterior nose specimen when child has an acute respiratory illness, and mailed return of the specimen to the laboratory.

OTHER

Healthcare worker home visit

Healthcare worker performs home visit for collection of respiratory specimen (anterior nose) when study child has an acute respiratory illness.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Queensland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Keith Grimwood, MD · The University of Queensland

  • Theo P Sloots, PhD · Queensland Paediatric Infectious Diseases Laboratory

  • Michael D Nissen, FRACP · Queensland Paediatric Infectious Disease Laboratory

  • Stephen B Lambert, MBBS · Queensland Paediatric Infectious Diseases Laboratory

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
2 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-08-31
Primary Completion
2010-09-30
Completion
2010-12-31

Countries

  • Australia

Study Locations

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