Impact of Health Education Learning Package Against Intestinal Parasitic Infections Among Orang Asli Children

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Clinical Trial

Official title:

Impact of Health Education Learning Package Against Intestinal Parasitic Infections Among Orang Asli Schoolchildren in Malaysia

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03930901
• Other study ID #: 202016000190-85
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 18, 2017
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: April 2019
• Source: University of Malaya
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

A health education learning package (HELP) has been improved and evaluated for its impact against intestinal parasitic infections among Orang Asli schoolchildren in West Malaysia. 13 schools were allocated into two groups (intervention and control groups) and the impact of HELP was evaluated after 3 and 6 months of baseline assessment and HELP intervention.

Description:

This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of an improved health education learning package (HELP) against intestinal parasitic infections among Orang Asli schoolchildren in West Malaysia. The package has been tested by a pilot study in 2013 among children in 2 schools in Pahang state.

In the current study, HELP package has been improved and children from 13 primary schools in 11 districts of six states in Peninsular Malaysia were allocated into two groups (intervention and control groups) and the impact of HELP was evaluated after 3 and 6 months of baseline assessment and HELP intervention.

The evaluation involved soil-transmitted helminth infections and intestinal protozoa infections.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1142
• Est. completion date: August 31, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: November 15, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 8 Years to 12 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Grade 2 - 6

• Orang Asli ethnicity

• Schools exclusively for Orang Asli

Exclusion Criteria:

• Grade 1

• Chronic sever diseases

• no consent

• schools for mixed population groups

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Communicable Diseases
• Infection
• Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic
• Intestinal Parasitic Infections
• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Parasitic Diseases

Intervention

Other:
• Health education learning package
Health education learning package (HELP) was introduced to children in the selected schools. The package involved different items and activities during the study period, e.g. comic booklet on the intestinal parasitic infections, stand banners, posters, lectures, songs, drawing competition, puppet show, lectures, with a toolkit that involved soap, slipper (plastic clogs shoes), & nail clipper).

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Malaysia	University of Malaya	Kuala Lumpur

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Malaya

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Malaysia, 

References & Publications (1)

Al-Delaimy AK, Al-Mekhlafi HM, Lim YA, Nasr NA, Sady H, Atroosh WM, Mahmud R. Developing and evaluating health education learning package (HELP) to control soil-transmitted helminth infections among Orang Asli children in Malaysia. Parasit Vectors. 2014 S — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Re-infection rate of intestinal parasitic infections using multiple parasitological and molecular diagnostic techniques	Prevalence rate of Intestinal parasitic infections before and after health education	6 months
Secondary	Intensity rate of intestinal parasitic infections using multiple parasitological and molecular diagnostic techniques	Intensity rate of Intestinal parasitic infections before and after health education	6 months