Surveillance Study of Acute Gastroenteritis in Hospitalized Children

NCT ID: NCT02245139

Last Updated: 2017-04-27

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 198 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-07-01
• Study Completion Date: 2014-12-15

Brief Summary

Acute gastroenteritis is a common cause of hospital admission and health office visits and have a huge burden on the economy of developing countries. The investigators proposed this observational prospective study during summer period in a community and tertiary care hospital in a rural area of Lebanon to investigate the etiologies and age distribution of admitted cases to general pediatric floor from the age of 1 month up to the age of 14 years.

Conditions

Acute Gastroenteritis; Diarrhea; Dehydration

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_ONLY
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• acute gastroenteritis

Exclusion Criteria

• immunodeficiency
• malnutrition

• Minimum Eligible Age: 1 Month
• Maximum Eligible Age: 13 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Shaikh Ragheb Harb Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

HADI FAKIH, MD

MD

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Other Identifiers

SRHH12014

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id