NCT01043809CompletedNot Applicable
Evaluation of a School-based Handwashing Promotion Program in Three Countries
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention3 sites in 3 countries15,000 target enrollmentStarted: January 1, 2008Last updated:
Conditions
Interventions
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 15,000
- Locations
- 3
- Primary Endpoint
- student school absences / 100 student-weeks of observation
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to assess whether simple, school-based handwashing promotion impacts health and hygiene knowledge among students and their families.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •19 students per first grade class
- •Piped water tap available to every 30 first grade students for handwashing
Exclusion Criteria
- •Compulsory handwashing or distribution of hand wipes before school lunch
- •Commercial handwashing promotion at school during previous 5 years
Arms & Interventions
1
No Intervention
Randomly selected schools will not receive handwashing intervention
2
Experimental
Randomly selected schools will get standard commercial school-based handwashing promotion
Intervention: Procter & Gamble school-based handwashing promotion program (Behavioral)
3
Experimental
Randomly selected schools will receive standard commercial school-based handwashing promotion program, plus an added level of handwashing promotion (varies by country)
Intervention: expanded school-based handwashing promotion (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
student school absences / 100 student-weeks of observation
Time Frame: one semester
Secondary Outcomes
- student absences due to infectious syndromes / 100 student-weeks of observation(one semester)
- longitudinal prevalence of infectious syndromes among students' family members(one semester)
- Student absences due to respiratory illness / 100 student-weeks of observation(one semester)
Investigators
Study Sites (3)
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