Impact of Health Education on School Children

Intestinal Helminthiasis Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Impact of Health Education in Controlling Soil-transmitted Helminthiasis Among Orang Asli Schoolchildren

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01640626
• Other study ID #: University Of Malaya
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• First received: July 11, 2012
• Last updated: June 22, 2014
• Start date: July 2012
• Est. completion date: November 2013

Study information

• Verified date: June 2014
• Source: University of Malaya
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Malaysia: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

There is a sever lack in application of health education intervention for Soil Transmitted Disease (STH) in rural communities and in school children among Orang Asli in Pahang in Malaysia, and also there is a lack of information on the effect of different health education aspects on STH control in Malaysia, so the investigators think that introducing such new national educational package and for the first time in Malaysian's school will help children to make some behavior changes specially for the school children aiming to use these children as an educator agents to their families and preschool brothers and sisters, to build a base for this issue and to reduce STH intensity in these rural areas, which in turn will determine the best approach to health education intervention to be applied to other rural areas in Malaysia.

Description:

The World Health Organization established that infections with STH among school¬children cause malnutrition, intellectual retardation and cognitive and educational deficits.

Although school-based intervention specifically the deworming antihelminths drugs programme were introduced into school but still Orang Asli villages in Malaysia having a high intensity and higher prevalence rate for STH, therefore the objective of this article was to review other intervention means mainly the health education intervention into school children and rural community, where most of these studies concluded that health education intervention was successful in increasing knowledge and changing some of practices among people and children which in turn decreases the prevalence and intensity of the STH. Also we think applying such intervention in Malaysia would be a benefit to change knowledge and attitude towards STH, and it will be the first research study to be applied in this field.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 317
• Est. completion date: November 2013
• Est. primary completion date: October 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 5 Years to 14 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age:7-14

• No evidence of concomitant chronic illness such as acute respiratory tract infections, mental retardation.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age over 15

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Helminthiasis
• Intestinal Diseases
• Intestinal Helminthiasis

Intervention

Other:
• Health Education package
Health Education package that covers key health messages about the proper personal hygiene practices will be given to school children in the intervention school. The package consisted of many items such as posters, comic book, song video, competitions, drawing activities, puppet show, etc.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Malaysia	National school of Pos Betau & NAtional school of Kuala Koyan	Kuala Lipis	Pahang

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Malaya

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Malaysia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	1- The prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among the Orang Asli children living in the rural areas of Pahang and Selangor will be determined.	An open-label clinical trial will be carried out to investigate the impact of health package in controlling Soil Transmitted Disease (STH) infections among Orang Asli children in rural areas of Pahang and Selangor, Malaysia. After baseline screening for the eligibility of the children, all children will be screened for STH infections.	1-2 year	Yes