Impact of Health Education Learning Package Against Intestinal Parasitic Infections Among Orang Asli Children

University of Malaya

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intestinal Parasitic Infections; Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Other: Health education learning package

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03930901

202016000190-85

Details and patient eligibility

About

A health education learning package (HELP) has been improved and evaluated for its impact against intestinal parasitic infections among Orang Asli schoolchildren in West Malaysia. 13 schools were allocated into two groups (intervention and control groups) and the impact of HELP was evaluated after 3 and 6 months of baseline assessment and HELP intervention.

Full description

This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of an improved health education learning package (HELP) against intestinal parasitic infections among Orang Asli schoolchildren in West Malaysia. The package has been tested by a pilot study in 2013 among children in 2 schools in Pahang state.

In the current study, HELP package has been improved and children from 13 primary schools in 11 districts of six states in Peninsular Malaysia were allocated into two groups (intervention and control groups) and the impact of HELP was evaluated after 3 and 6 months of baseline assessment and HELP intervention.

The evaluation involved soil-transmitted helminth infections and intestinal protozoa infections.

Enrollment: 1,142 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Grade 2 - 6
• Orang Asli ethnicity
• Schools exclusively for Orang Asli

Exclusion criteria

• Grade 1
• Chronic sever diseases
• no consent
• schools for mixed population groups

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,142 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Other group

Description:

Children in this group were examined for intestinal parasites and then treated accordingly. Then, health education learning package (HELP) was introduced to children in the selected schools. The package involved different items and activities during the study period, e.g. comic booklet on the intestinal parasitic infections, stand banners, posters, lectures, songs, drawing competition, puppet show, lectures, with a toolkit that involved soap, slipper (plastic clogs shoes), \& nail clipper).

Treatment:

Other: Health education learning package

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Children in this group were examined for intestinal parasites and then treated accordingly. They were follow up for 6 months.