Clinical trial NCT01640626: Impact of Health Education on School Children
Official title: The Impact of Health Education in Controlling Soil-transmitted Helminthiasis Among Orang Asli Schoolchildren
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE1
Conditions: Intestinal Helminthiasis
Keywords: Health Education
Soil-transmitted helminthiasis
Ascaris
Trichuris
Hookworm
Prevention and control
Lead sponsor: University of Malaya
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2012-07-16
Enrollment: 317
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 14
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age:7-14
* No evidence of concomitant chronic illness such as acute respiratory tract infections, mental retardation.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Age over 15

Primary outcomes:
measure: 1- The prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among the Orang Asli children living in the rural areas of Pahang and Selangor will be determined.
timeFrame: 1-2 year
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Kuala Lipis
country: Malaysia
facility: National school of Pos Betau & NAtional school of Kuala Koyan
state: Pahang
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Malaya
name: Ahmed K. Al-Delaimy, MSc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: University of Malaya
name: Hesham M Al-Mekhlafi, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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