Evaluation Of The Unilever Lifebuoy School-Based Handwashing Campaign (School Of 5) In Rural Bihar, India

NCT02424812 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: ciff001
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 2,628
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The effect of large scale handwashing and hygiene promotion campaigns on handwashing behaviour, diarrhoea and respiratory infections is not known. While Intensive small scale interventions have achieved improvements in handwashing behaviour and reductions in diarrhoea and respiratory infections, it is not clear whether realistic and scalable interventions delivered across large areas achieve effects large enough to be of public health interest. The Unilever "School of 5" Lifebuoy campaign is such a scalable intervention that is being rolled out across the state of Bihar during 2015 to 2017. The proposed study aims at evaluation the effect of this campaign on handwashing behaviour in school aged children and their mothers, and on diarrhoea and respiratory infections in the same children and their younger siblings.

Conditions

Diarrhea

Keywords

handwashing; behavior

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Handwashing with soap

  handwashing behaviour will be assessed by direct (structured) observation by a female field observer. Specifically, observers will identify 3 occasions of handwashing (before eating, after toilet use, and after child care). The primary outcome of the study will be the proportion of these observed occasions at which the subject washed hands with soap. The outcome will be observed in school children and adult household members.

  3 months after intervention, single contact

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Diarrhoea

  6 months to 9 months post intervention

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

school based handwashing education programme

Behavioral: Lifebuoy School of Five Handwashing Intervention

Control

NO INTERVENTION

no intervention

Interventions

Lifebuoy School of Five Handwashing Intervention BEHAVIORAL

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Enrolled households have a child that attends a school in the village that has more than 150 children on the school register.
• Enrolled households further have a child under 5 years.

You may not qualify if:

• none of the above

Sponsors & Collaborators

• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: lead
• Hindustan Unilever Ltd.: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

KAAPRO

Patna, Bihar, India

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Diarrhea; Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Signs and Symptoms, Digestive; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Wolf-Peter Schmidt, PhD, MD

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 20, 2015
• First Posted: April 23, 2015
• Study Start: February 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: November 10, 2016
• Study Completion: February 27, 2017
• Last Updated: March 8, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

IN (1)