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Intervening to Improve Infant Health in Ghana

NCT01335490 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1414

Last updated 2017-07-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the study is to understand how cooking might affect the health of pregnant women and their babies.

The goal of the research is to determine whether, interventions in decreasing exposure to smoke from cook stoves can bring about a significant change in the indoor air pollution levels and health of communities in Ghana.

Hypothesis 1. Use of improved cook stoves starting by the third trimester pregnancy will lead to a significant increase in average birth weight in newborns.

Hypothesis 2. Use of improved cook stoves will lead to a significant reduction in the rate of severe acute lower respiratory disease during the first 12 months of life.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Cook stoves, either Biolite wood stove, or liquified petroleum gas stove plus fuel

The cooking stoves will reduce air emissions significantly in the home, resulting in improved infant health. It will be given to the mother in the second or third trimester.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

    collaborator NIH

  • Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

    collaborator OTHER

  • Thrasher Research Fund

    collaborator OTHER

  • Columbia University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Patrick Kinney, ScD · Columbia University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-08-31
Primary Completion
2016-03-31
Completion
2016-03-31

Countries

  • United States
  • Ghana

Study Locations

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