Heat Clinical Trial
— HEATOfficial title:
Heat Emergency Awareness and Treatment (HEAT): A Cluster Randomized Trial to Assess the Impact of a Comprehensive Intervention to Mitigate Humanitarian Crisis Due to Extreme Heat in Karachi, Pakistan
Verified date | January 2019 |
Source | Johns Hopkins University |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
Investigators propose an intervention trial of a comprehensive education and treatment bundle designed to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with heat-related illness for low resource settings. Two set of interventions will be developed each for emergency department and for community/home. These interventions will be developed by an internal expert group and will be customized and implemented at the home and emergency department (ED) levels, will include evidence-based educational training guidelines for ED health providers as well as educational messages targeting home and community in Karachi, Pakistan.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 16973 |
Est. completion date | October 30, 2018 |
Est. primary completion date | October 30, 2018 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | N/A and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Patients presenting to the emergency departments in Karachi who present with suspected heat stroke/heat exhaustion and basic information about their presentation and treatment will be obtained in the ED for May-July. - Community households in "Korangi District" - Physicians/Nurses working in the emergency department of study hospital sites Exclusion Criteria: - When a family refused to participate in the study |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Pakistan | Aga Khan University | Karachi | |
Pakistan | The Aman Foundation | Karachi |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Johns Hopkins University | Aga Khan University, Aman Foundation |
Pakistan,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Emergency Department visits | Total number of individuals requiring visit to an emergency department during the study period | 3 months | |
Secondary | Total number of deaths (due to any cause) | Total number of deaths in the community during the study period | 3 months | |
Secondary | Hospital admissions | Total number of hospital admissions due to any cause during the study period. | 3 months |
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