Evidence based community mobilization for dengue prevention in Nicaragua and Mexico (Camino Verde, the Green Way): cluster randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test whether community mobilization adds effectiveness to conventional dengue control.

Design

Pragmatic open label parallel group cluster randomized controlled trial. Those assessing the outcomes and analyzing the data were blinded to group assignment. Centralized computerized randomization after the baseline study allocated half the sites to intervention, stratified by country, evidence of recent dengue virus infection in children aged 3-9, and vector indices.

Setting

Random sample of communities in Managua, capital of Nicaragua, and three coastal regions in Guerrero State in the south of Mexico.

Participants

Residents in a random sample of census enumeration areas across both countries: 75 intervention and 75 control clusters (about 140 household

SUBMITTER: Andersson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4495677 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature