Clinical trials: Handwashing
Respiratory Disease, Gastrointestinal Diseases and Symptom
12 Steps of a Modified Handwashing Program on Health Outcomes and School Absenteeism
The goal of this clinical trial is to assess whether providing hand and respiratory hygiene interventions in primary school children reduces the incidence rate of absence episodes due to illness in children during an academic…
- Trial name
- Hand hygiene (NCT07467902)
- Testing
- Hand Hygiene Education Program
- Where
- Iraq
- Volunteers
- 802 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hawler Medical University
Diarrhea
Pakistan Flocculent Health Outcome Study
This study is designed to evaluate the effect of different methods of drinking water treatment on the occurrence of diarrhea among children living in squatter settlements in Karachi, Pakistan, and the marginal benefit of adding…
- Trial name
- NCT01538953
- Testing
- handwashing, flocculent-disinfectant for water treatment, water treatment with sodium hypochlorite
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 8,949 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Intestinal Parasitic Infections, Anaemia
Impact of Hand Hygiene Activities on the Prevention of Intestinal Parasitic Infections and Anaemia Among School Children
Impact exerted by intestinal parasitic infections is much higher in developing countries. School-aged children are at higher risk from the burden of disease, because they specially have many parasitic infections.
- Trial name
- NCT01619254
- Testing
- Hand washing with soap and hand finger nail clipping
- Where
- Ethiopia
- Volunteers
- 365 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mekelle University
Malnutrition, Diarrhea
WASH Benefits Bangladesh
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to measure the independent and combined effects of interventions that improve water quality, sanitation, hand washing, and nutrition on child growth and development in the first years…
- Conditions
- Malnutrition, Diarrhea, Child Development
- Trial name
- NCT01590095
- Testing
- Water quality, Sanitation, Hand washing
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 5,040 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
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
Neonatal Infection, Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Study to Determine if Gloving in Addition to Hand Hygiene Will Prevent Invasive Infections and Necrotizing Enterocolitis
The purpose of this study is to compare the additional use of gloves (with handwashing before and after gloving) for all patient contact while infants have intravenous (central or peripheral) access in a RCT.
- Trial name
- NCT01729000
- Testing
- Gloves
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 124 people
- Sponsor
- University of Virginia
Hand Hygiene
Technology-assisted Index on Improving Hand Hygiene of Registered Nurses
In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended the use of a multi-faceted, multi-modal hand hygiene strategy (Five Moments for Hand Hygiene) to improve hand hygiene compliance among healthcare staff.
- Trial name
- NCT04508114
- Testing
- Technology-assisted Index
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
Virtual Reality
Surgical Hand Washing and Sterile Dressing Training With Virtual Reality Glasses
ABSTRACT This study is a comparison of the impact of virtual reality on surgical handwashing and sterile dressing knowledge, skills, satisfaction, and confidence in nursing students enrolled in surgical nursing, as opposed to…
- Trial name
- NCT06162364
- Testing
- VR, theoretical training, training with video
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 79 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Osmaniye Korkut Ata University
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
Hand-washing Behavior, Diarrhea
The Hope Soap Study: a Hand-washing Intervention Among Children in South Africa
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…
- Trial name
- NCT03280771
- Testing
- Hope Soap, Control group soap
- Volunteers
- 288 people
- Sponsor
- University of Cape Town
Handwashing
Understanding End User Preferences for Hand Hygiene Enabling Technologies in Urban and Peri-urban Lusaka Zambia
The goal of this study is to explore the perceived attributes, acceptability, and use of various improved handwashing facility designs.
- Trial name
- HHET (NCT06903169)
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 37 people
- Sponsor
- Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Hygiene, Handwashing
Intervention to Change Handwashing Behaviour in India
The research will test the hypothesis that a scalable behaviour change intervention can improve hand-washing practices in rural Indian households.
- Conditions
- Hygiene, Handwashing, Behaviour
- Trial name
- NCT04929860
- Testing
- social marketing campaign
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 1,747 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Behavior
Innovative Hand Washing Interventions for Internally Displaced Populations in Ethiopia
Understanding how different types of visual prompts and props could impact handwashing practices in humanitarian emergency settings could allow organisations managing camps to deliver hygiene interventions tailored to populations…
- Trial name
- NCT04078633
- Testing
- Hand hygiene interventions
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Diarrhoeal Disease
Evaluation of a Multiple Behaviour Programme for Diarrhoea Management
Control of diarrhoeal disease requires a comprehensive package of preventive and curative interventions. in Zambia, the Programme for Awareness and Elimination of Diarrhoea (PAED) aims to reduce child deaths by combating…
- Trial name
- NCT02081521
- Testing
- Community behaviour change campaign
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 640 people
- Sponsor
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Human Influenza
Bangladesh Secondary Transmission Handwashing Protocol
The next influenza pandemic is expected to spread rapidly in resource-poor settings. Influenza viruses spread from human-to-human via large respiratory droplets.
- Trial name
- NCT00880659
- Testing
- Soap
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 6,600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Handwashing, Infection
A Multifaceted Intervention to Improve Hand Hygiene
This randomized controlled trial will evaluate the effect of a multifaceted intervention including performance feedback on adherence to hand hygiene among healthcare workers.
- Trial name
- NCT00375037
- Testing
- feedback, Education, usual care
- Where
- 3 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
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
Hand Hygiene, School Health, Primary School Students, Health Education
Effect of Digital Method-Based Hand Hygiene Education on Handwashing Skills in Primary School Students
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of a digitally based hand hygiene education program developed for primary school students on their proper handwashing skills.
- Trial name
- DMHHE (NCT07799181)
- Testing
- Digital Hand Hygiene Education Program
- Volunteers
- 52 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Marmara University
Handwashing Behaviour
Evaluating the Individual and Combined Effects of Hand Hygiene Promotion and Hardware Provision on Handwashing With Soap in Lusaka, Zambia
The goal of this study is to assess the individual and combined effects of hand hygiene behavioural promotion and handwashing hardware and supply provision on handwashing with soap behaviour at handwashing opportunities in…
- Trial name
- BCLab (NCT06865495)
- Testing
- Handwashing Hardware and Supply Provision, Hand Hygiene Behavioural Promotion
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 1,800 people
- Sponsor
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine