EFECAB: Improving Pig Management to Prevent Epilepsy in Burkina Faso

Summary

This is a pre-post randomized community-based controlled trial aimed at estimating the effectiveness of an educational package developed using PRECEDE PROCEED to reduce the cumulative incidence of Taenia solium cysticercosis in three Provinces of Burkina Faso. The study design included an 18-months baseline study to measure baseline cumulative incidence of cysticercosis followed by an 18-month post randomization study to measure the effectiveness of the intervention. Sixty villages of three Provinces of Burkina Faso were included. The primary outcome was the change in the baseline to post randomization cumulative incidence in the intervention group compared to the control group.

Conditions

• Cysticercosis

Interventions

OTHER

Educational package

The educational package was offered to 30 villages post randomization. The field team completed the SARAR PHAST with community members for 2-3 days in each intervention village. The movie was projected every night for 2-3 days in each intervention village.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• AFRICSanté

  collaborator OTHER

• Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium

  collaborator OTHER

• Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante, Burkina Faso

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

  collaborator OTHER

• University Hospital, Limoges

  collaborator OTHER

• Centre Universitaire Souro Sanou

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Technical University of Munich

  collaborator OTHER

• Brown University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Oklahoma

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Hélène Carabin, DVM PhD · University of Oklahoma

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

5 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2011-02-21

Primary Completion

2014-11-24

Completion

2015-01-31

Countries

• Burkina Faso

Study Locations