A randomized-controlled intervention and evaluation of an innovative school health education (ISHE) project for primary schools in rural Bangladesh

The effects of cluster Randomised-Controlled Intervention of Skill-Based Health Education (SBHE) on health and hygiene practice and behaviour among primary schools and pupils in rural Bangladesh

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN18002856

Enrollment

180

Registered

2023-11-17

Start date

2011-10-11

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-09-08

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Conditions

Healthy and hygiene behaviour: cold-related symptoms

Interventions

The proposed project applied a treatment-control pre-post evaluation based on a cross-cutting randomisation design of SBHE (HE) and a soap-provision (SP) intervention. The unit of intervention was sch

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: School children attending the selected schools

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Declined to take part in the survey

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
1. Handwashing practice: handwashing habit index (frequency and used materials before eating, after defecation, and after playing), frequency of handwashing with soap on each occasion, washing under running water, and correct handwashing procedure. 2. Dental-care practice: dentalcare index (frequency); tooth-brushing frequency using brush/branch; combination of used materials such as fingers, branch to brush, with ash, coal, powder and/or paste. 3. Oher hygiene practice: shoe-wearing habits at school; shoe-wearing habits at home (inside latrine and in courtyard). 4. Hand cleanliness: clean hands, trimmed nails, and clean nails; adenosine triphosphate (ATP): ATP improvement rate comparing before and after handwashing. 5. Nutrition practice: breakfast taken, and food taken for the past three days, ordered by the richness of the nutrition score and categorised into three categories (none; carbohydrate and vitamins; carbohydrate, protein and plus). 6. Health/hygiene knowledge: handwashing procedure; breakfast important; putting water in latrine before defecating (endline only), oral rehydration solution (ORS) making (endline only), food pyramid (endline only).	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Handwashing practice: handwashing habit index (frequency and used materials before eating, after defecation, and after playing), frequency of handwashing with soap on each occasion, washing under running water, and correct handwashing procedure. 2. Dental-care practice: dentalcare index (frequency); tooth-brushing frequency using brush/branch; combination of used materials such as fingers, branch to brush, with ash, coal, powder and/or paste. 3. Oher hygiene practice: shoe-wearing habits at school; shoe-wearing habits at home (inside latrine and in courtyard). 4. Hand cleanliness: clean hands, trimmed nails, and clean nails; adenosine triphosphate (ATP): ATP improvement rate comparing before and after handwashing. 5. Nutrition practice: breakfast taken, and food taken for the past three days, ordered by the richness of the nutrition score and categorised into three categories (none; carbohydrate and vitamins; carbohydrate, protein and plus). 6. Health/hygiene knowledge: handwashing procedure; breakfast important; putting water in latrine before defecating (endline only), oral rehydration solution (ORS) making (endline only), food pyramid (endline only).

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. nthropometry: height-, weight- (net of clothes) and BMI-for-age-z-score. * Given the fact that WHO Growth Chart for weight is only available for 5-10 years, while that for height and BMI is available for 5-19 years, the British 1990 Growth Charts available for 0-20 years were utilised to calculate the z-scores. 2. Cold-related symptoms: cough, breathing difficulty, sore throat, fever, running nose, and congested nose at present and in the past two-weeks. 3. Other illness: diarrhoea, stomachache, scabies in the past two-weeks, fatigue, dizziness, and appetite loss.	—

Measure

Time frame

1. nthropometry: height-, weight- (net of clothes) and BMI-for-age-z-score. * Given the fact that WHO Growth Chart for weight is only available for 5-10 years, while that for height and BMI is available for 5-19 years, the British 1990 Growth Charts available for 0-20 years were utilised to calculate the z-scores. 2. Cold-related symptoms: cough, breathing difficulty, sore throat, fever, running nose, and congested nose at present and in the past two-weeks. 3. Other illness: diarrhoea, stomachache, scabies in the past two-weeks, fatigue, dizziness, and appetite loss.

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Countries

Bangladesh

Contacts

Public ContactMakiko Omura

makiko@eco.meijigakuin.ac.jp+81-3-5421-5340

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026