An Effectiveness Trial to Evaluate Protection of Children and Pregnant Women by Influenza Vaccine in Rural Bangladesh

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

PHASE4

Total Enrollment

3800 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-04-07

Study Completion Date

2024-12-31

Brief Summary

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Annually influenza is a leading cause of severe disease and mortality particularly in young children \<5 years old and pregnant women in the low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and both groups are prioritised for vaccination by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In Bangladesh, influenza is responsible for 10% of all childhood pneumonias and 9% of all death. Maternal influenza is associated with an increased risk of hospitalisation and foetal malformation. Influenza is a vaccine preventable disease, however, in most LMICs influenza vaccination is not part of the vaccination programme. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of inactivated influenza vaccine against influenza illness among pregnant women and children in Bangladesh. Influenza vaccine has not yet been studied as combined immunization strategy in a cluster randomized trial. This study is a community-based randomised trial in both pregnant women and young children to assess the impact of inactivated influenza vaccine in preventing influenza in the community as well as population level impact by both direct and indirect effect of vaccination.

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Detailed Description

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This clinical trial will be conducted in rural Matlab, Bangladesh, covered by a Maternal, Child Health and Family Planning intervention program (named MCH-FP area). Twenty villages in the Maternal, Child Health and Family Planning intervention program area will be randomized at a 1:1 ratio to receive either inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) or the control inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). Recruitment, randomization and vaccination of healthy pregnant women at 28 to 34 weeks of gestation period and children 6 to 59 months old at the time of enrolment will be carried out from fixed site clinics working in the MCH-FP area. Vaccines will be administered as a single dose regimen for the pregnant women and two doses for children at 28-days interval as recommended by the vaccine manufacturers. All pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy (n\~300), and children 6 to 59 months old in 20 villages in the MCH-FP area of Matlab will be eligible for vaccination (n\~3500) for the study. In addition, all residents of study villages will be included in the influenza surveillance.

All vaccinated pregnant women and parents of vaccinated children 6 to 59 months old will be asked to inform the study team by phone of any respiratory illnesses or to visit the Matlab hospital. Also, all residents of the study villages will be asked to visit the Matlab hospital/fixed site clinic for any respiratory illness. Participants will receive regular SMS messages to remind them to report cases of influenza like illness (ILI). At the hospital, the medical officer will examine the sick patient and decide if the criteria of the ILI case definition are met. ILI is defined as an acute respiratory infection with: measured fever of ≥ 38 C° and cough; with onset within the last 10 days for adults; and in case of children as measured axillary temperature ≥ 38.0°C with onset within the last 10 days and at least one of the following symptoms: cough, sore throat, nasal congestion, rhinorrhea, earache or ear discharge. In medically confirmed ILI cases, the trial will collect nasopharyngeal and throat swabs for confirmation of the aetiology of the infection, as well as collect serum samples from vaccinated participants Passive surveillance will continue for 18 months following completion of vaccination.

Outcome measures/variables:

1. Incidence, prevalence, seasonality and clinical descriptions of :

1. Influenza infection including clinical pneumonia in child (fever, cough and respiratory difficulties)
2. Influenza infection including clinical pneumonia in mother (fever, cough and respiratory difficulties)
2. HAI antibody titres to calculate the rate of reduction of risk of influenza infection or disease in influenza vaccination pregnant women and children as well as reduction of flu infection in population of intervention and control villages
3. Evaluation of simple sample collection methods in children to assess Influenza specific antibody responses in DBS and saliva sample
4. Clinical and demographic risk factors associated with illness
5. Comparisons of pregnancy outcomes and post-delivery illness/complication
6. Clinical and laboratory confirmation of influenza and other respiratory virus in sick individuals
7. Economic evaluation of influenza vaccination in pregnant women and children

Conditions

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Influenza Viral Infections

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Investigators

Study Groups

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