Fit Plus: Assessing the Impact of a School-based Intervention on Toilet Quality

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hand Hygiene

Treatments: Other: FIT Plus; Other: Comparator arm

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03204175

12238

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will assess the impact of a school-based water, sanitation, and hygiene management intervention on toilet use and pupil handwashing in the Philippines.

Enrollment: 8,687 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Attending study school on day of observation

Exclusion criteria

• No predefined exclusion criteria since individual-level data is not recorded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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8,687 participants in 2 patient groups

Fit Plus

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental arm will receive the Fit For School expanded intervention, which addresses pupil handwashing, toothbrushing, and school sanitation maintenance. Interventions will begin in July 2017.

Treatment:

Other: FIT Plus

Comparator

Active Comparator group

Description:

This group will receive the Fit Plus intervention after the trial is complete (January 2017)

Treatment:

Other: Comparator arm