Study to Investigate the Causes of Fever in Children Living in Urban Dar es Salaam and Rural Ifakara
Completed
- Conditions
- FeverChildrenInfectious Diseases
- Registration Number
- NCT01812785
- Lead Sponsor
- Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute
- Brief Summary
The goal is to improve the evidence-based management of fever cases seen in outpatient clinics in malaria endemic countries, through a better understanding of the value of accurate malaria diagnosis, and through an improved understanding of the other causes of fever in children. The objective is to describe systematically (as much as possible) the etiologies of fever in children in an urban and in a rural environment of sub-Saharan Africa.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1010
Inclusion Criteria
- axillary temperature of 38°C or more
- first consultation for the present problem
- history of fever lasting for one week or less
- main complaint was not an injury or trauma
- no report of an antimalarial or antibiotic medicine taken during the previous week
Exclusion Criteria
- severe malnutrition
- categorized as P1 (requiring immediate live saving procedures)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of each disease and proportion of fevers of unknown origin in febrile children aged 2 months to 10 years attending an Outpatient Department of a district hospital in Dar es Salaam and in Ifakara December 2011
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Clinical and laboratory predictors of each disease December 2011
Trial Locations
- Locations (2)
St Francis hospital
🇹🇿Ifakara, Morogoro, Tanzania
Amana district hospital
🇹🇿Dar es Salaam, Tanzania