Prevention of Dengue and chikungunya with Homoeopathy

Effectiveness of Eupatorium perfoliatum vis- a-vis health awareness in preventing dengue & chikungunya fever during outbreak â?? An open cluster level study

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Phase 3

Study type

Interventional

Source

CTRI

Registry ID

CTRI/2017/10/010288

Enrollment

70000

Registered

2017-10-31

Start date

Unknown

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2021-11-24

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: Eupatorium Perfoliatum 30 along with Information, education and communication about dengue: 30 potency, 1 diskette, once a week for 10 weeks plus IEC (Information, education and communi

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Inhabitant of a community in an outbreak region of dengue/chikungunya will be eligible. Criteria as follow: • Healthy individuals of either sex, aged 1 year and above living in the same community • Informed consent by the family head • No symptom of dengue and chikungunya at the time of taking medicine.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Symptoms of dengue like illness/ fever in last 7 days at the time of enrollment Pregnant women and lactating mother Child below age of 1 year. Individuals taking other preventive medicines for dengue & chikungunya Patients with malignancy, immunocompromised state, life threatening diseases, end stage diseases.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
a. Changes in incidence of dengue fever between the groups. b. Changes in incidence of chikungunya fever between the groups. Timepoint: Assessment of the participants every 7 days for 3 months	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
-Timepoint: -	—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDr RK Manchanda

Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy

anilnaman@rediffmail.com011-28524266

Outcome results