{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Awasthi S"],"funding":["Medical Research Council"],"pagination":["1478-86"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC3647147"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["381(9876)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Background
In north India many pre-school children are underweight, many have intestinal worms, and 2-3% die at ages 1·0-6·0 years. We used the state-wide Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) infrastructure to help to assess any effects of regular deworming on mortality.Methods
Participants in this cluster-randomised study were children in catchment areas of 8338 ICDS-staffed village child-care centres (under-5 population 1 million) in 72 administrative blocks. Groups of four neighbouring blocks were cluster-randomly allocated in Oxford between 6-monthly vitamin A (retinol capsule of 200,000 IU retinyl acetate in oil, to be cut and dripped into the child's mouth every 6 months), albendazole (400 mg tablet every 6 months), both, or neither (open control). Analyses of "],"journal":["Lancet (London, England)"],"pubmed_title":["Population deworming every 6 months with albendazole in 1 million pre-school children in North India: DEVTA, a cluster-randomised trial."],"pmcid":["PMC3647147"],"funding_grant_id":["MC_U137686857"],"pubmed_authors":["Narang N","Lal A","Haq I","Lal B","Prasad M","Kumar M","Kumar N","Upreti DK","Ahmad H","Kumar R","Kumar S","Ahmad A","Singh H","Sharma A","Shukla SS","Kazi M","Singh S","Neetu L","Pant PK","Parween S","Tiwari AK","Najeeb S","Chaturvedi A","Rai B","Sharma M","Joshi VC","Richards SM","Bajpai D","Mani SS","Rehman H","Saxena N","Pande V","Chandra H","Read S","Das R","Srivastava VK","Chandra A","Tandon A","Dwivedi A","Peto R","Pal C","Srivastava A","Prakash N","Shukla VB","Chandra R","Dwivedi S","Chandra U","Verma SS","Tripathi M","Pandey L","Shukla L","Bundy D","Shukla H","Bahadur J","Shukla KB","Shukla V","Kumar D","Chitransh D","Shukla R","Shukla S","DEVTA (Deworming and Enhanced Vitamin A) team","Kumar K","Ayyar L","Maseeh A","Awasthi S","Rastogi T","Kumar A","Rashid Z"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Population deworming every 6 months with albendazole in 1 million pre-school children in North India: DEVTA, a cluster-randomised trial.","description":"Background
In north India many pre-school children are underweight, many have intestinal worms, and 2-3% die at ages 1·0-6·0 years. We used the state-wide Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) infrastructure to help to assess any effects of regular deworming on mortality.Methods
Participants in this cluster-randomised study were children in catchment areas of 8338 ICDS-staffed village child-care centres (under-5 population 1 million) in 72 administrative blocks. Groups of four neighbouring blocks were cluster-randomly allocated in Oxford between 6-monthly vitamin A (retinol capsule of 200,000 IU retinyl acetate in oil, to be cut and dripped into the child's mouth every 6 months), albendazole (400 mg tablet every 6 months), both, or neither (open control). Analyses of ","dates":{"release":"2013-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2013 Apr","modification":"2025-04-03T22:11:15.507Z","creation":"2019-03-27T01:09:39Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC3647147","cross_references":{"pubmed":["23498850"],"doi":["10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62126-6"]}}