The Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease in School Children in Fiji

Queensland Institute of Medical Research

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Rheumatic Heart Disease

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT00779662

07- 0070

U01AI060579 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is an epidemiological observational cross-sectional study designed to estimate the prevalence of echocardiographically confirmed RHD in school children from 5-14 years of age in Fiji. The study will be conducted in the Central Division of Fiji within a selection of up to16 primary schools located in the Korovou/Tailevu and Rewa/Nausori sub-divisions. School children will be enrolled after informed consent has been obtained. A standard cardiac examination (auscultation) will be performed as part of the routine annual health check by both school nurses, who have attended a training workshop, and by a paediatrician. All children with or without murmur will have a screening echocardiogram performed at a subsequent visit. Children found to have possible, probable or definite RHD or other cardiac pathology on the screening echocardiogram, will have a full echocardiogram performed by the echocardiography technician at the time of the second study visit. They will all also be referred to a paediatric cardiologist for further investigation and management and monitoring . Cases of RHD will be referred to and followed up by the National Fiji RHD register based at CWMH in Suva.

Enrollment

2,000 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

5 to 14 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria