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Creating a New Health Promotion Module to Help the Indigenous People of Selangor Prepare for Disease X and Outbreaks

U

Universiti Teknologi Mara

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Attitude to Health
Preparedness
Outbreaks
Health Behavior
Behavior, Health
Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Attitude
Health-Related Behavior

Treatments

Behavioral: Educational Brochures for the Orang Asli
Behavioral: Outbreak Preparedness Intervention for the Orang Asli

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06539845
24-01859-NQ7

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this cluster randomized trial is to develop and test a new method for preparing indigenous (locally termed as Orang Asli) households in Selangor, a state in Malaysia, for outbreaks and Disease X, a potential unknown infectious threat. It aims to determine if the new method, a health education package comprised of workshops, simulation exercises, and card game play sessions, can enhance the readiness of these families for such outbreaks.

The main questions it is looking to answer are:

  1. Will the intervention package increase the level of preparedness for a Disease X and outbreaks among indigenous households in Selangor?
  2. Will the intervention improve the awareness and attitudes of the indigenous people in Selangor towards outbreak preparedness?
  3. Will it lead to more proactive preparedness actions by these households?

To evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention package, researchers will compare outcomes between two groups: the intervention group receiving both the intervention package and educational brochures on communicable disease prevention, and the control group receiving only the brochures.

Participants will:

  1. Participate in the activities in the newly developed intervention package, which would include workshops, simulation exercises, and card game play sessions.
  2. Answer surveys four times: before, immediately after, 1 month after and 2 months after the intervention, to measure any changes in their preparedness levels for an outbreak.

Enrollment

96 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 99 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Orang Asli ethnicity
  • Malaysian citizen
  • Age between 18 to 99 years old
  • The head of the household, or the person who contributes to, or influences health-related decisions for the household
  • Live in a household with at least three members
  • Able to converse in Malay

Exclusion criteria

  • Having physical or cognitive disabilities (e.g., blindness, deafness, schizophrenia and dementia)
  • Having severe health conditions (e.g., respiratory and cardiovascular disease requiring oxygen support such as severe asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/heart failure and congenital heart diseases)
  • Residing temporarily (less than 2 years)
  • Intending to relocate to a different residence within the next 2 years

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

96 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention
Experimental group
Description:
Randomly selected Orang Asli villages will receive the intervention package along with educational brochures, through a workshop they will need to participate in once.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Outbreak Preparedness Intervention for the Orang Asli
Control
Active Comparator group
Description:
Randomly selected Orang Asli villages that will receive the educational brochures only.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Educational Brochures for the Orang Asli

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Ameerah Su'ad Abdul Shakor

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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