Deworming and Enhanced Vitamin A Every 6 Month in Rural Indian Children Aged 1-6

University of Oxford

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Village Children

Treatments: Drug: Albendazole; Drug: Vitamin A

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00222547

DEVTA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomisation of 72 large rural areas ("blocks") into a 2 x 2 trial of six- monthly treatment of all village children aged 1-5 with albendazole(400mg), vitamin A (200000 iu), both or neither. The placebo group get no trial treatment at all and do not receive physical placebos.

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 6 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

InclusionCriteria:

• Area of residence

Exclusion Criteria:

• NONE

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)