Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. · May 2014
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyDo shoes reduce hookworm infection in school-aged children on Pemba Island, Zanzibar? A pragmatic trial.
A non-blinded, cluster randomised controlled trial to test whether footwear reduces prevalence and intensity of hookworm infection in school-aged children on Pemba Island, Zanzibar. ⋯ Due to contamination, the trial could not conclude that shoes were protective against hookworm infection but the intervention led to behavioural change, and observational data suggest that shoes are protective against hookworm. This trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01869127.