Evaluating the Impact of School-based Health Programs on Children's Well-being and Academic Performance
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 614
- 主要终点
- Change in prevalence of acute disease
研究概览
简要总结
This study evaluates the impact of a new and comprehensive school-based health program implemented in Lusaka, Zambia.
详细描述
While school-aged children in low- and middle-income countries remain highly exposed to acute infections, programs targeting this age group remain limited in scale and scope. In this study, we evaluate the impact of a new and comprehensive primary school-based health intervention program on student health outcomes and academic performance in Lusaka, Zambia. The intervention involved the training of teachers to become school health workers and the provision of vitamin A supplementation and deworming medication on a bi-annual basis. Teachers in intervention schools were trained to deliver health lessons and to refer sick students to care. This study is designed as a prospective matched control study. Students from the seven intervention schools are matched with students from control schools.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Children attending one of the 14 schools in the study.
排除标准
- •Children not attending one of the 14 schools in the study.
研究组 & 干预措施
Control
The control group receives regular school programming.
Intervention
The intervention group receives a school health program that has two components: the training of selected teachers to become school Health Workers and bi-annual health screenings of all students.
干预措施: School Health Worker Program (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in prevalence of acute disease
时间窗: Baseline, 6 months, and one-year follow-up
Students report on the presence of 14 systemic, genitourinary, respiratory, and gastrointestinal illnesses in the past two week. Acute illnesses are combined into a summary index of morbidity.
次要结局
- Change in height(Baseline, 6 months, and one-year follow-up)
- Change in school attendance(Baseline, 6 months, and one-year follow-up)
- Change in academic performance(Baseline, 6 months, and one-year follow-up)
- Change in weight(Baseline, 6 months, and one-year follow-up)
- Change in health knowledge(Baseline, 6 months, and one-year follow-up)
研究者
Günther Fink
Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)