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Star Homes Project 2

NCT04529434 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1183

Last updated 2026-05-04

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Summary

Malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea causes a lot of illness in children in Tanzania and the study want to find better ways of protecting people against these diseases and want to find out if the type of house design can affect the general health of children living in the house.

Conditions

  • Malaria
  • Respiratory Tract Infection Acute
  • Diarrhoea;Acute

Interventions

OTHER

Star Homes

110 identical novel-designed houses, known as Star Homes, include the critical structural components e.g. building orientated to provide optimal shading throughout the day, light-weight \& durable roof, facade and openings screened from insects to reduce insect entry while assuring airflow, an outdoor fly-proof latrine, and solar power providing electric light at night etc.

OTHER

Traditional African houses

A traditional mud house: with wattle and daub walls, a thatched roof, and no electricity or piped water supply.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit

    collaborator OTHER

  • CSK Research Solutions

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Oxford

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lorenz von Seidlein, Ass.Prof. · Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-01-04
Primary Completion
2025-12-31
Completion
2025-12-31

Countries

  • Tanzania

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