Clinical trials: Hand Washing
Respiratory Tract Infections, Gastroenteritis
Impact of a Multifactorial Program of Hand Hygiene on Infections in Children Attending in Day-care Centres
It is well known that attending Day Care Centres (DCCs) can lead to an increase in the frequency of infections, due to the high incidence at this age and also the ease of transmission among children.
- Trial name
- NCT03294772
- Testing
- hand sanitizer, liquid soap
- Volunteers
- 911 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fundación Pública Andaluza para la Investigación Biomédica Andalucía Oriental
Antisepsis
Pre-surgical Antisepsis Using an Alcoholic Solution of Chlorhexidine Digluconate and Potassium Sorbate
The present study evaluates the effects of bactericidal load reduction after surgical hand scrub antisepsis using the reference antiseptic product propan-ol-1 60% as control versus a surgical hand scrub antisepsis with addition…
- Trial name
- sorbectol (NCT04454619)
- Testing
- Hand antisepsis with Clorhexidine and solution
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centro Ortopedico y Quirurgico del Pie
Hand Hygiene, Surgical Wound Infection
Surgical Handwashing: Drying With One or Two Surgical Towels
This study aims to determine whether the use of two sterile towels for drying after surgical handwashing results in fewer contamination events compared to the use of only one towel among healthcare personnel.
- Conditions
- Hand Hygiene, Surgical Wound Infection, Healthcare Associated Infection, Medical Errors
- Trial name
- NCT06420934
- Testing
- Drying procedure after surgical handwashing
- Where
- Colombia
- Volunteers
- 72 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Instituto de Ortopedia Infantil Roosevelt
Trachoma
Water Uptake for Health in Amhara Pilot
Trachoma is a blinding disease caused by ocular strains of Chlamydia trachomatis. The Carter Center and Proctor Foundation have been jointly conducting trachoma research in the Goncha Siso Enese woreda of Amhara for the past 8…
- Trial name
- WUHA (NCT02373657)
- Testing
- instruction in soap-making and hygiene education
- Where
- Ethiopia
- Volunteers
- 4,068 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Chronic Disease, Covid-19 Pandemic
Effect of Hand-Washing Training in Covid-19
This study was conducted in order to inform, the women with chronic disease in rural areas, about hand-washing and nutrition, and to evaluate the efficiency of the training program.
- Trial name
- NCT04957017
- Testing
- Training
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
Infectious Disease, Respiratory Illness
Evaluation of a Handwashing Promotion Program in Three Countries
The purpose of this study is to assess whether simple, school-based handwashing promotion impacts health and hygiene knowledge among students and their families.
- Conditions
- Infectious Disease, Respiratory Illness, Absenteeism
- Trial name
- NCT01043809
- Testing
- Procter & Gamble school-based handwashing promotion program, expanded school-based handwashing promotion
- Where
- 3 sites in China, Pakistan and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 15,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Focus of Study: Handwashing
Efficacy of the Brushless Scrub
The aim of this research is to examine if the brushless scrub is effective in reducing bioburden on the hands of the operating room (OR) personnel both with a prewash of one minute prior to scrub and without a prewash prior to…
- Trial name
- NCT01583231
- Testing
- Prewash
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Winthrop University Hospital
Develop a New Group Version of the Becker-DeGroot-Marsckek (BDM) Auction to Measure Willingness to Pay of Compound Members for Shared Hardware., Develop a New Survey Instrument to Measure Behavioural Determinants of Hand Washing and Water Treatment Like Disgust and Shame or Social Pressure.
Disgust and Shame Based Safe Water and Handwashing Promotion
An estimated 2.2 million children under the age of 5 years die from diarrheal disease each year. Most of the burden of diarrheal disease is thought to be preventable with improvements in sanitation, water quality, and hygiene.
- Conditions
- Develop a New Group Version of the Becker-DeGroot-Marsckek (BDM) Auction to Measure Willingness to Pay of Compound Members for Shared Hardware., Develop a New Survey Instrument to Measure Behavioural Determinants of Hand Washing and Water Treatment Like Disgust and Shame or Social Pressure., Identify New Methods for Measuring Hand Washing and Water Treatment Behaviour., Compare the Effectiveness of the Disgust and Shame Based Interventions With Standard Public Health Interventions.
- Trial name
- NCT02037243
- Testing
- Standard Public Health Intervention with Water Treatment, Standard Public Health Intervention with Water Treatment & Hand Washing
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 420 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Hand Disinfection
Nudging Handwashing: a Cluster-randomized Trial in Bangladesh
The study will collect and analyze quantitative data regarding handwashing behaviors among school-aged children to determine the impact of nudges compared to handwashing and hygiene education programs.
- Trial name
- NCT02703974
- Testing
- Early handwashing station, Late handwashing station, Nudge
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Oklahoma
Coronavirus, Child, Only
Wear Your Mask, Wash Your Hands, Don't Get COVID-19
The aim of this project is to determine the effect of training given to children aged 11-14 on hand hygiene and mask use. In line with this general purpose, the hypotheses of the research are as follows: H0= Education given to…
- Trial name
- NCT05572840
- Testing
- Training and activities
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 273 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bartın Unıversity
Acute Diarrheal Disease, Acute Respiratory Infection
"Alcohol Based Hand Sanitizers for the Prevention of Acute Diarrheal Disease and Acute Respiratory Infection in Children Under 5 Attending Childcare Centers in Bogotá, Cundinamarca and Tolima, in Colombia: a Cluster Randomized Control Trial"
The purpose of this study is to conduct a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) in a developing country setting in order to evaluate the role of alcohol based hand sanitizers (ABHS) in preventing the transmission of infectious diseases…
- Trial name
- NCT00963391
- Testing
- ABHS use
- Where
- Colombia
- Volunteers
- 1,727 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fundación Santa Fe de Bogota
Cholera, Diarrhea
Cholera-Hospital-Based-Intervention-for-7-days
The Cholera Hospital Based Intervention for 7 Days (CHoBI7) randomized controlled trial for transition to scale aimed to: (1) Develop and evaluate scalable approaches to integrate the CHoBI7 intervention into the services…
- Conditions
- Cholera, Diarrhea, Stunting
- Trial name
- CHoBI7 (NCT04008134)
- Testing
- CHoBI7 health facility program, CHoBI7 mHealth program, CHoBI7 home visit program
- Volunteers
- 2,626 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Handwashing Behavior
Game-Based Handwashing Education in Preschool Children
This study aims to evaluate the effect of a game-based handwashing education program, which will be developed based on the Health Belief Model, on the handwashing behaviors of preschool children.
- Trial name
- NCT07607717
- Testing
- Game-Based Handwashing Education
- Volunteers
- 108 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University
Hand Hygiene, Hand Washing
Hand Hygiene of Kindergarten Children
Randomized controlled trial to further assess the impact of a digital intervention on hand hygiene of young children. Children in intervention kindergartens will see live instructions and feedback on their hand washing activity…
- Trial name
- NCT05395988
- Testing
- Digital hand washing instructions, Digital hand washing reward
- Where
- 2 sites in Finland, Germany
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
Helminthiasis, Diarrhea
Spillover Effects of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Interventions on Child Health
The purpose of this study is to measure whether a combined water, sanitation, and hygiene intervention leads to improved health of children who did not receive the intervention themselves and who live within a close vicinity of…
- Conditions
- Helminthiasis, Diarrhea, Respiratory Infection
- Trial name
- NCT02396407
- Testing
- Combined water, sanitation, and hygiene
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 1,789 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Berkeley
Vaccination, Hygiene
Microbe-Literacy Germ-Watching Workshops for Hygiene and Vaccine Acceptance in Sargodha, Pakistan
This cluster randomized controlled trial evaluated whether a single microscope-based "germ-watching" workshop, delivered by Lady Health Workers (LHWs) to mothers and female caregivers of children under three years, improves…
- Conditions
- Vaccination, Hygiene, Vaccine Hesitancy, Health Knowledge Attitudes and Practice
- Trial name
- MLI-Sargodha (NCT07771738)
- Testing
- Microbe-literacy germ-watching workshop
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 1,200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Development Synergies International (Private) Limited
Illness Absenteeism, Handwashing Behavior
Jerusalem Handwashing Study
The primary objective of this preschool intervention trial was to determine whether a hygiene program can promote handwashing and thereby reduce illness absenteeism.
- Trial name
- JHS (NCT00610376)
- Testing
- Preschool handwashing intervention program, Home component intervention
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 1,029 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Handwashing Behaviors
Effect of a Pilot Group Hand-washing Program on Handwashing Behaviors Among Elementary School Children in Assam
The United Nation's International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is supporting Saba Shikha Abihyan (SSA) (Education-for-All Mission) of the Government of Assam (GoA) under their Water-Sanitation-Hygiene in School (WinS)…
- Trial name
- NCT02617225
- Testing
- DHaAL Intervention, DHaAL + CFSS Intervention
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 823 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Network for Engineering and Economics Research and Management
Hand Hygiene, Handwashing Behaviour
Hands4Health: A Multi-component Intervention on Hand Hygiene & Well-being in Schools in Nigeria & Palestine (H4H)
The aim of this study is to assess the impact of the hands4health hand hygiene multi-component intervention on students and teachers in primary schools with limited access to water in Nigeria and Palestine.
- Conditions
- Hand Hygiene, Handwashing Behaviour, Well-Being
- Trial name
- H4H (NCT05964478)
- Testing
- Multi-component hand hygiene intervention in primary schools not connected to functional water supply system in Nigeria and Palestine
- Where
- 2 sites in Nigeria, Palestinian Territories
- Volunteers
- 2,600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute
Diarrhea
Evaluation Of The Unilever Lifebuoy School-Based Handwashing Campaign (School Of 5) In Rural Bihar, India
The effect of large scale handwashing and hygiene promotion campaigns on handwashing behaviour, diarrhoea and respiratory infections is not known.
- Trial name
- NCT02424812
- Testing
- Lifebuoy School of Five Handwashing Intervention
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 2,628 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine