Impact of Health Education Learning Package Against Intestinal Parasitic Infections Among Orang Asli Children

NCT03930901 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 202016000190-85
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,142
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

A health education learning package (HELP) has been improved and evaluated for its impact against intestinal parasitic infections among Orang Asli schoolchildren in West Malaysia. 13 schools were allocated into two groups (intervention and control groups) and the impact of HELP was evaluated after 3 and 6 months of baseline assessment and HELP intervention.

Conditions

Intestinal Parasitic Infections; Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Keywords

Intestinal Parasitic Infections; Soil-transmitted helminth infections; Health education

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Re-infection rate of intestinal parasitic infections using multiple parasitological and molecular diagnostic techniques

  Prevalence rate of Intestinal parasitic infections before and after health education

  6 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Intensity rate of intestinal parasitic infections using multiple parasitological and molecular diagnostic techniques

  6 months

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

OTHER

Children in this group were examined for intestinal parasites and then treated accordingly. Then, health education learning package (HELP) was introduced to children in the selected schools. The package involved different items and activities during the study period, e.g. comic booklet on the intestinal parasitic infections, stand banners, posters, lectures, songs, drawing competition, puppet show, lectures, with a toolkit that involved soap, slipper (plastic clogs shoes), \& nail clipper).

Other: Health education learning package

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Children in this group were examined for intestinal parasites and then treated accordingly. They were follow up for 6 months.

Interventions

Health education learning package OTHER

Health education learning package (HELP) was introduced to children in the selected schools. The package involved different items and activities during the study period, e.g. comic booklet on the intestinal parasitic infections, stand banners, posters, lectures, songs, drawing competition, puppet show, lectures, with a toolkit that involved soap, slipper (plastic clogs shoes), \& nail clipper).

Also known as: HELP

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 8 Years - 12 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Grade 2 - 6
• Orang Asli ethnicity
• Schools exclusively for Orang Asli

You may not qualify if:

• Grade 1
• Chronic sever diseases
• no consent
• schools for mixed population groups

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Malaya: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Malaya

Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Al-Delaimy AK, Al-Mekhlafi HM, Lim YA, Nasr NA, Sady H, Atroosh WM, Mahmud R. Developing and evaluating health education learning package (HELP) to control soil-transmitted helminth infections among Orang Asli children in Malaysia. Parasit Vectors. 2014 Sep 2;7:416. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-416.

  PMID: 25179100 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Behavior; Health Education

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Adherence Interventions; Medication Adherence; Patient Compliance; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Treatment Adherence and Compliance; Health Behavior

Study Officials

• Hesham M Al-Mekhlafi, PhD

  University of Malaya

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Model Details: Two groups; intervention group that involved schools where HELP will be administered and control group that involved schools that will not receive health education.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 5, 2019
• First Posted: April 29, 2019
• Study Start: April 18, 2017
• Primary Completion: November 15, 2017
• Study Completion: August 31, 2018
• Last Updated: April 29, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

MY (1)