Hand sanitisers for reducing illness absences in primary school childre

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Childhood illnesses that lead to school absence; Childhood respiratory illness; Childhood gastrointestinal illness; Public Health - Epidemiology; Infection - Other infectious diseases

• Registration Number: ACTRN12609000478213
• Lead Sponsor: Dr Patricia Priest

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2009-06-17
• Study Completion: 2009-09-25
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2443

Inclusion Criteria

School level inclusion:
(i) At least 100 children of primary school age (school years 1 to 6; children will generally range in age from 5 years to 11 years) at November 2008.
(ii) Schools not currently using hand-sanitiser products or are willing to not use hand-sanitiser products for the period of the trial.
(iii) Schools are within the City boundaries of Christchurch, Dunedin, or Invercargill in New Zealand.
(iv) The principal of the school consents to the school being included in the trial.

Student level inclusion (follow-up children):
(i) Parents/guardians are able to read and understand spoken English to a level where they can read the study information sheet, complete the consent form, and respond to telephone interviews. This will be assessed from a question on the consent form.
(ii) Attending a year 1 to 6 class in one of the included schools, at the beginning of the second school term in 2009 (end April).

Exclusion Criteria

School level exclusion:
(i) Special needs schools.

Student level exclusion (follow-up children):
(i) Children of the principal investigators and study personnel of the trial.
(ii) Children of families that the principal of the primary school directs us not to approach.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Absence from school due to any illness. Injury and infestation (headlice, scabies) are excluded. Information will be collected from the school roll on all absences and parents who have given consent to be contacted following their children's absences ('follow-up children') will be contacted for confirmation except where it is clear that the child was not unwell (e.g. on holiday, at a funeral, etc). An absence episode is defined as a group of days of absence with no gaps of non-absence of more than 2 days.[Absence information will be collected from each school once a week from the first week of term 2; a total of 20 weeks over the two terms. Parents who have consented to be followed up post absence will be telephoned on a week day 8 to 9 days after the date of the first day of absence from school.]