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Register: PACTR
Last refreshed on: 29 April 2013
Main ID:  PACTR201211000449232
Date of registration: 01/11/2012
Primary sponsor: University of Antwerp
Public title: Intermittent Preventive Treatment: efficacy and safety of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus piperaquine in schoolchildren.
Scientific title: Intermittent Preventive Treatment: efficacy and safety of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus piperaquine in schoolchildren of the Democratic Republic of Congo. A Randomised Control Trial.
Date of first enrolment: 2012-11-12
Target sample size: 1100
Recruitment status: Not yet recruiting
URL:  HTTP://www.pactr.org/ATMWeb/appmanager/atm/atmregistry?da=true&tno=PACTR201211000449232
Study type:  interventional
Study design:  Parallel: different groups receive different interventions at same time during study,
Randomised,
Permuted block randomisation (block of three with variable block size) using a randomisation table created by a computer software program,
Allocation was determined by the holder of the sequence who is situated off site,
 
Countries of recruitment
South Africa
Contacts
Name: Joachim  Doua
Address:  Universiteitplein 2610 Antwerp-Wilrijk Belgium
Telephone: 003232652874
Email: joachimy.doua@ua.ac.be
Affiliation:  International Health Unit, University of Antwerp
Name: Joachim  Doua
Address:  Universiteitplein 2610 Wilrijk-Antwerp Belgium
Telephone: 003232652874
Email: joachimy.doua@ua.ac.be
Affiliation:  International Health Unit, University of Antwerp
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - males and females primary school children,
anticipated local residence for the study duration,

signed or thumb-printed informed consent by the parents or guardians and witnessed by an impartial witness (whenever parents/guardians are illiterate)

informed ascent for 12-year children or more

Exclusion criteria: Children of the 6th primary school year

Participation in any other investigational drug study (antimalarial or others) during the previous 30 days.

Known hypersensitivity or serious adverse events (AE) to study drugs.

Clinical malaria at baseline irrespectively of the severity (World Health Organisation malaria treatment guideline 2010) (Annex III).

Febrile conditions caused by diseases other than malaria at first visit.

Clinical symptoms of severe anaemia

Illness or conditions like hematologic, cardiac, renal, hepatic diseases which in the judgement of the investigator would place the subject at undue risk or interfere with the results of the study, including known G6PD deficiency and sickle cell.

Body weight ` 14 Kg

Children with major chronic infectious diseases.


Age minimum: 5 Year
Age maximum: 15 Year
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Malaria
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Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
Hemoglobin concentration
Secondary Outcome(s)
Educational performance
malaria incidence
malaria parasitemia
Malaria prevalence
Prevalence of P. falciparum dihydrofolate reductase and dihydropteroate synthase markers
Rate of malnutrition
School attendance
Secondary ID(s)
B300201214729
ESP/CE/045/2012
NCT01722539
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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