Impact of Health Education on School Children

NCT01640626 | Completed Phase 1 DMC

• 1 other identifier: University Of Malaya
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 317
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

There is a sever lack in application of health education intervention for Soil Transmitted Disease (STH) in rural communities and in school children among Orang Asli in Pahang in Malaysia, and also there is a lack of information on the effect of different health education aspects on STH control in Malaysia, so the investigators think that introducing such new national educational package and for the first time in Malaysian's school will help children to make some behavior changes specially for the school children aiming to use these children as an educator agents to their families and preschool brothers and sisters, to build a base for this issue and to reduce STH intensity in these rural areas, which in turn will determine the best approach to health education intervention to be applied to other rural areas in Malaysia.

Conditions

Intestinal Helminthiasis

Keywords

Health Education; Soil-transmitted helminthiasis; Ascaris; Trichuris; Hookworm; Prevention and control

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• 1- The prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among the Orang Asli children living in the rural areas of Pahang and Selangor will be determined.

  An open-label clinical trial will be carried out to investigate the impact of health package in controlling Soil Transmitted Disease (STH) infections among Orang Asli children in rural areas of Pahang and Selangor, Malaysia. After baseline screening for the eligibility of the children, all children will be screened for STH infections.

  1-2 year

Study Arms (2)

Health Education

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Deworming will be conducted in both schools. A health education package will be introduced to schoolchildren in the intervention school (School A) only. Both schools will be followed up for 6 months.

Other: Health Education package

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Schoolchildren in school B will serve as a control group. No intervention (Health education package) will be given after complete deworming at baseline.

Interventions

Health Education package OTHER

Health Education package that covers key health messages about the proper personal hygiene practices will be given to school children in the intervention school. The package consisted of many items such as posters, comic book, song video, competitions, drawing activities, puppet show, etc.

Health Education

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 5 Years - 14 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Age:7-14
• No evidence of concomitant chronic illness such as acute respiratory tract infections, mental retardation.

You may not qualify if:

• Age over 15

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Malaya: lead

Study Sites (1)

National school of Pos Betau & NAtional school of Kuala Koyan

Kuala Lipis, Pahang, Malaysia

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Intestinal helminthiasis; Health Education; Ancylostomiasis

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Adherence Interventions; Medication Adherence; Patient Compliance; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Treatment Adherence and Compliance; Health Behavior; Behavior; Hookworm Infections; Strongylida Infections; Secernentea Infections; Nematode Infections; Helminthiasis; Parasitic Diseases; Infections

Study Officials

• Ahmed K. Al-Delaimy, MSc

  University of Malaya

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Hesham M Al-Mekhlafi, PhD

  University of Malaya

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 1
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: THE IMPACT OF HEALTH EDUCATION IN CONTROLLING SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTHIASIS IN ORANG ASLI COMMUNITIES

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 11, 2012
• First Posted: July 16, 2012
• Study Start: July 1, 2012
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2013
• Study Completion: November 1, 2013
• Last Updated: June 24, 2014

Record last verified: 2014-06

Locations

MY (1)