Clinical trial NCT03588858: Child Labour at Al-Sadat Neighborhood, Assiut City
Official title: Child Labour at Al-Sadat Neighborhood, Assiut City
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Work-Related Condition
Lead sponsor: Assiut University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-07-17
Enrollment: 150
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The study will be conducted at the workshops of car repair in Al-Sadat area of Assiut city. The number of these workshops is 130 and the number of working children in these workshops about 150 child.

Brief summary: General objective: To promote proper health status of working children in Assiut city.

Specific objectives:

1. To describe the socio-demographic characteristics of children working in car repair workshops in Al-Sadat area of Assiut city.
2. To describe the work environment.
3. To identify work related injuries and diseases among those working children.

Detailed description: Study population: Children working in car repair workshops in Al-Sadat area of Assiut city. Male children aged from 5 to 17 years will be included in this study.

Instrument: Data collection will be performed by using structured interview questionnaires. The questionnaire used for data collection will cover the following modules:

* Module (1): Socio-demographic characteristics (for example: age, family size, family residence, education and occupation of the parents, number of sibling, family income, etc).
* Module (2) :Occupational history : (Housing conditions and occupational features; age at the beginning of working, duration of working, working hours/day, weekend vacation, weekly income, causes of child work, nature of work, work hazards, type of exposure, health habits and practices such as smoking in addition to causes of school dropout.... etc)
* Module (3): Presence of work related injuries and diseases by history and observation.
* Module (4): Food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) during the past week: It will show the diet of working children if have a healthy and nutritious pattern or not.
* Module (5): Mental health screening: Self-reporting questionnaire 20 questions for assessment of mental health status of children.
* After collection of data the children will subjected to the following investigations:

HB level measurements - anthropometric measurements (weight and height) - pulmonary function tests (spirometry) and hearing level assessment by audiometry will be done only for children more than 12 years.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Children working in car repair workshops in Al-Sadat area of Assiut city. Male children aged from 5 to 17 years

Exclusion Criteria:

* Children outside the age range (below 5 years),
* Female children

Primary outcomes:
measure: Hemoglobin level measurements by using Mission Hb Hemoglobin Meter
timeFrame: Baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: measurements (weight by weighing scale and height by height scale)
timeFrame: Baseline
Other outcomes:
measure: pulmonary function tests
timeFrame: Baseline
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Assistant professor
name: Sabra Ahmed, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: ILO. What is child labour, International Labour Organization