Effectiveness of Adding Zinc to the Current Case Management Package of Diarrhea in a Primary Health Care Setting

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2004-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Use of zinc in diarrhea may be an effective intervention to reduce hospitalizations and child mortality as it could reach the most vulnerable children in a community and reduce severity of not only diarrhea but also of associated infections. It might also potentially reduce antibiotic use.

We conducted a pilot study prior to conducting a community based controlled effectiveness trial to assess whether addition of zinc as a therapeutic modality for diarrhea delivered through existing channels, reduces visits to health care providers, antibiotic and other drug use, and increases ORS use during diarrhea.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Society for Applied Studies
• Collaborators: Johns Hopkins University; World Health Organization
• Treatments: Zinc

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children aged 1 month to 5 years with diarrhea

Exclusion Criteria:

• Illness requiring hospitalization (referral)