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Worm Infestation and Child Health in Zimbabwe

NCT01283165 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1303

Last updated 2011-11-10

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Summary

The main objective of the project was to determine the effect of integrated school based deworming and health education on prevalence and morbidity due to co-infection infection with schistosomiasis, STHs and malaria among primary school age children living in rural and farming areas in Zimbabwe

There is need for regular school based de-worming and health education programs for the helminths-Plasmodium co-infections in primary schoolchildren living in rural and commercial farming areas in Zimbabwe

Conditions

  • Integrated Control of Malaria and Polyparasitism

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Health education intervention

Health education was conducted in two ways. (1) Teachers were taught how to use the flip chart that contained health education material about parasites. The lessons were done during free periods as this intervention had not been formally fitted into the school syllabus. (2) The research team provided health education to school children. Focus group discussions were conducted by the research team with school children all assembled outside their classes. Health education leaflets were distributed to all school children at the school. Children were asked to share the health information with their friends and families.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Health Research, Zimbabwe

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Zimbabwe

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Takafira Mduluza, PhD · University of Zimbabwe

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-04-30
Primary Completion
2006-06-30
Completion
2006-12-31

Countries

  • Zimbabwe

Study Locations

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