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Mitigating Heat Stress Among Rickshaw Drivers in Bangladesh

NCT06956430 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2025-05-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of the experimental study is to understand the impact of heat stress on core temperature and telomere length. Investigators will recruit rickshaw drivers who use manual power to push their rickshaws and randomly assign half of them to receive battery-powered rickshaws to use for four months. Investigators will assess how this change impacts their core body temperature while they work, the length of their telomeres (caps on the end of DNA that are associated with aging), and kidney function.

Conditions

  • Core Temperature
  • Telomere Length, Mean Leukocyte
  • Kidney Function Issue

Interventions

DEVICE

Battery-powered rickshaw

A battery-powered rickshaw is a rickshaw where the wheels are turned by a small electric motors powered by a battery.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

    collaborator OTHER

  • North South University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of California, Berkeley

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laura Kwong, PhD · University of California, Berkeley

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-06-01
Primary Completion
2025-10-31
Completion
2025-12-31

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