Re-analysis of health and educational impacts of a school-based deworming programme in western Kenya: a pure replication.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Helminth (worm) infections cause morbidity among poor communities worldwide. An influential study conducted in Kenya in 1998-99 reported that a school-based drug-and-educational intervention had benefits regarding worm infections and school attendance. Effects were seen among children treated with deworming drugs, untreated children in intervention schools and children in nearby non-intervention schools. Combining these effects, the intervention was reported to increase school attendance by 7.5% in treated children. Effects on other outcomes (worm infections, anaemia, nutritional status and examination performance) were also investigated.

Methods

In this pure replication, we used data provided by the original authors to re-analyse the study according to their meth

SUBMITTER: Aiken AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4681107 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature