Impact of Health Education on School Children

NCT ID: NCT01640626

Last Updated: 2014-06-24

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: PHASE1
• Total Enrollment: 317 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2012-07-31
• Study Completion Date: 2013-11-30

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.

Conditions

Intestinal Helminthiasis

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Health Education

Deworming will be conducted in both schools. A health education package will be introduced to schoolchildren in the intervention school (School A) only. Both schools will be followed up for 6 months.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Health Education package

Intervention Type: OTHER

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.

Control

Schoolchildren in school B will serve as a control group. No intervention (Health education package) will be given after complete deworming at baseline.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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.

Intervention Type: OTHER

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 5 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 14 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Malaya

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Ahmed Al-Delaimy

THE IMPACT OF HEALTH EDUCATION IN CONTROLLING SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTHIASIS IN ORANG ASLI COMMUNITIES

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Ahmed K. Al-Delaimy, MSc

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Malaya

Hesham M Al-Mekhlafi, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

University of Malaya

Locations

National school of Pos Betau & NAtional school of Kuala Koyan

Kuala Lipis, Pahang, Malaysia

Countries

Malaysia

Other Identifiers

University Of Malaya

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id