Clinical Trial: Study to Test Whether Shoes Protect Children Against Hookworm Infection on Pemba Island, Zanzibar

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional




Official Title: Shoes for Kids on the Island of Pemba (SKIP): A Pragmatic, Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial to Test if Shoes Reduce Hookworm Infection and Transmission in School-aged C

Brief Summary: Small association studies have hypothesised that shoes protect against hookworm infection. The purpose of this pragmatic study was determine, under field conditions, whether school-age children on Pemba Island, Zanzibar, would wear shoes and if shoes protected them against hookworm infection.