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School-based Health Programs on Children's Wellbeing in Lusaka, Zambia

NCT03607084 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 614

Last updated 2018-07-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study evaluates the impact of a new and comprehensive school-based health program implemented in Lusaka, Zambia.

Conditions

  • Acute Disease
  • Morbidity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

School Health Worker Program

The intervention trains selected teachers to deliver health lessons to students, perform basic first aid, recognize common illnesses, refer student to skilled medical attention when needed. The intervention provides schools with basic medical supplies including pain relief medication, thermometers, bandages, antiseptics, and oral rehydration solution. Vitamin A supplementation and presumptive deworming medication are administered to students during biannual health screenings.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Healthy Kids/Brighter Future

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-06-17
Primary Completion
2016-07-28
Completion
2016-07-28

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