Heat Emergency Awareness and Treatment (HEAT)

Summary

Investigators propose an intervention trial of a comprehensive education and treatment bundle designed to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with heat-related illness for low resource settings. Two set of interventions will be developed each for emergency department and for community/home. These interventions will be developed by an internal expert group and will be customized and implemented at the home and emergency department (ED) levels, will include evidence-based educational training guidelines for ED health providers as well as educational messages targeting home and community in Karachi, Pakistan.

Conditions

• Heat Illness
• Heat Stroke
• Heat Exhaustion
• Heat Exposure
• Heat Syncope, Sequela
• Heat Collapse
• Heat
• Heat Stroke and Sunstroke

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Implementation of Community-based Home Heat Bundle

This community-based intervention include a set of educational materials to increase awareness about heat-related illness and prevention with the intention of reducing the incidence of heat-related and reducing mortality associated with heat-related illness. Materials used in this intervention will include posters, brochures, in-person training, and SMS messaging.

BEHAVIORAL

Regular Community Healthcare provision

The community will get regular community health workers visit without the focus community mobilization and education on heat-related illnesses.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Aga Khan University

  collaborator OTHER

• Aman Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Johns Hopkins University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Junaid A Razzak, MD PhD · Johns Hopkins University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-11-30

Primary Completion

2018-10-30

Completion

2018-10-30

Countries

• Pakistan

Study Locations