Study to Investigate the Causes of Fever in Children Living in Urban Dar es Salaam and Rural Ifakara

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01812785

Enrollment

1010

Registered

2013-03-18

Start date

2008-01-31

Completion date

2011-12-31

Last updated

2013-03-18

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Conditions

Children, Fever, Infectious Diseases

Keywords

Fever, Children, Non-malaria fevers, Diagnosis

Brief summary

The goal is to improve the evidence-based management of fever cases seen in outpatient clinics in malaria endemic countries, through a better understanding of the value of accurate malaria diagnosis, and through an improved understanding of the other causes of fever in children. The objective is to describe systematically (as much as possible) the etiologies of fever in children in an urban and in a rural environment of sub-Saharan Africa.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

2 Months to 10 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* axillary temperature of 38°C or more * first consultation for the present problem * history of fever lasting for one week or less * main complaint was not an injury or trauma * no report of an antimalarial or antibiotic medicine taken during the previous week

Exclusion criteria

* severe malnutrition * categorized as P1 (requiring immediate live saving procedures)

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Proportion of each disease and proportion of fevers of unknown origin in febrile children aged 2 months to 10 years attending an Outpatient Department of a district hospital in Dar es Salaam and in Ifakara	December 2011

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Clinical and laboratory predictors of each disease	December 2011

Countries

Tanzania

Outcome results