The Hope Soap Study: a Hand-washing Intervention Among Children in South Africa

University of Cape Town (UCT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hand-washing Behavior; Diarrhea

Treatments: Combination Product: Hope Soap; Combination Product: Control group soap

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03280771

1952:BURNSFW

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Hope Soap Study is a randomised-control pilot study of a hand-washing intervention in which children in treatment households received a bi-monthly delivery of HOPE SOAP©, a colourful, translucent bar of soap with a toy embedded in its centre.

Enrollment: 288 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 9 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Enrolled in the Family-in-Focus program
• Caregiver provided informed consent
• the age-eligible children were not involved in any other sort of ECD program (e.g. crèche or other day-care)

Exclusion criteria

• Enrollment in an ECD program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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288 participants in 2 patient groups

Hope Soap group

Experimental group

Description:

Children in treatment households received a bi-monthly delivery of HOPE SOAP©, a colourful, translucent bar of soap with a toy embedded in its centre

Treatment:

Combination Product: Hope Soap

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Children in control households received a colourful, translucent bar or soap with the toy alongside it.

Treatment:

Combination Product: Control group soap