EFFECTIVENESS OF A SCHOOL-CENTRED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PREVENTION PROGRAM ON PREVALENCE OF LATENT RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE (PREVENT RHD)
This study consists in an RHD awareness campaign and a school nurse program providing integrated health care through assessment, intervention, and follow-up of GABHS pharyngitis, and facilitation of secondary antibiotic prophylaxis for children with latent RHD.
Studieoversigt
Status
Betingelser
Detaljeret beskrivelse
This study is conducted an incomplete stepped wedge cluster randomized trial in three countries with an endemic pattern of RHD. Individual schools are considered clusters and will be randomly selected from a pool of schools in Kathmandu (Nepal), Lusaka (Zambia), and Mekelle (Ethiopia). The clusters will be randomized to their position stratified by country so that each country has the same number of schools in the different phases. There will be three steps and the length of each step will be one year. Every cluster will provide before and after observations and every cluster will switch from a control phase to an experimental phase according to their randomization result. The experimental phase consists of a school-nurse program accompanied by an awareness program and will be delivered at the level of the cluster. The most important reason to use a stepped wedge rather than a parallel group cluster randomized design is that all included children attending participating schools will eventually benefit from the school-based prevention program.
Undersøgelsestype
Tilmelding (Anslået)
Kontakter og lokationer
Studiekontakt
- Navn: Guy Kayeye Muula, MD, MPH
- Telefonnummer: 0971747550
- E-mail: Guy.Muula@cidrz.org
Studiesteder
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Lusaka Province
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Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia, 10101
- Rekruttering
- Kalingalinga
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Deltagelseskriterier
Berettigelseskriterier
Aldre berettiget til at studere
Tager imod sunde frivillige
Køn, der er berettiget til at studere
Prøveudtagningsmetode
Studiebefolkning
20000
Beskrivelse
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 5-16 years
- Attending a randomly selected school at one of the three study sites
Exclusion Criteria:
- Children / primary caregivers not providing informed consent to participate.
- Children not attending one of the selected schools
Studieplan
Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?
Design detaljer
- Observationsmodeller: COHORT
- Tidsperspektiver: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Hvad måler undersøgelsen?
Primære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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To evaluate the effectiveness of an integrated, school-based program for the prevention of RHD in regions with an endemic pattern of RHD.
Tidsramme: Incidence of newly diagnosed definite or probable rheumatic heart disease during the follow-up period.
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The primary measures is to acertain the Incidence of definite or probable RHD among participating school-aged children during the study follow-up period. Incidence of new echocardiographically detected RHD among children who were free of RHD at baseline. Incidence of RHD per 1,000 person-years, comparing children in the intervention group with those in the control/usual-care group. The incidence of newly diagnosed definite or probable RHD among participants who do not have definite or probable RHD at baseline. RHD status will be determined using echocardiographic assessment according to the study-defined diagnostic criteria. The outcome will be reported as the number and percentage of participants developing new RHD in each study group during the 24-month follow-up period. |
Incidence of newly diagnosed definite or probable rheumatic heart disease during the follow-up period.
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Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere
Datoer for undersøgelser
Studer store datoer
Studiestart (Faktiske)
Primær færdiggørelse (Anslået)
Studieafslutning (Anslået)
Datoer for studieregistrering
Først indsendt
Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier
Først opslået (Faktiske)
Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler
Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)
Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier
Sidst verificeret
Mere information
Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse
Nøgleord
Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår
Andre undersøgelses-id-numre
- Prevent RHD 5848-2024
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