A Randomized Controlled Trial of a School Disinfection and Hand Hygiene Program

Boston Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gastrointestinal Diseases; Respiratory Infections

Treatments: Other: Alcohol-based hand sanitizer & quaternary ammonium wipes

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00514670

06-01-0014

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of the trial is to assess the impact of a disinfection and hand hygiene program on absenteeism in elementary school classrooms. Students in intervention classrooms will use alcohol-based hand sanitizers at school, and their classrooms will be disinfected using quaternary ammonium wipes. We hypothesize that the use of disinfectants and hand hygiene products in elementary school classrooms will reduce absenteeism.

Enrollment: 285 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Member of a designated elementary school classroom in the Avon school system

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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285 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention classrooms received alcohol-based hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes.

Treatment:

Other: Alcohol-based hand sanitizer & quaternary ammonium wipes

2

No Intervention group

Description:

No hand sanitizer or disinfecting wipes were used.