A Randomized-Controlled Intervention and Evaluation of an Innovative School Health Education (ISHE) project for Primary Schools in Rural Bangladesh

Last registered on June 04, 2019

Pre-Trial

General Information

Title

RCT ID

AEARCTR-0004265

Initial registration date

June 02, 2019

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published

June 04, 2019, 11:29 AM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Locations

Country

Bangladesh

Region

Jhenaidah

Primary Investigator

Name

Makiko Omura

Affiliation

Contact Primary Investigator

Other Primary Investigator(s)

Additional Trial Information

Status

Completed

Start date

2011-09-01

End date

2013-08-31

Keywords

Education, Health

Additional Keywords

JEL code(s)

I1, I2, O1

Secondary IDs

Abstract

This study investigates the impact of skill-based health education conducted in 90 primary schools in rural Bangladesh through a randomized controlled intervention. The health education is provided by locally recruited and trained para-teachers for a period of one year using a mini-projector. An additional cross-cutting soap provision is also implemented.

External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation

Omura, Makiko. 2019. "A Randomized-Controlled Intervention and Evaluation of an Innovative School Health Education (ISHE) project for Primary Schools in Rural Bangladesh." AEA RCT Registry. June 04. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.4265-1.0

Former Citation

Sponsors & Partners

Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)

Intervention Start Date

2012-03-01

Intervention End Date

2013-03-31

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)

children’s schooling; school hygiene practice; children's health; children's healthy practice

Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)

Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

The proposed project applied an intervention-control pre-post evaluation based on a cross-cutting randomization design of skill-based health education (HE) and a soap-provision (SP) intervention. The unit of intervention was school, and 180 randomly chosen schools were stratified according to the school type—government primary school (GPS) and registered non-government primary school (RNGPS) —and then randomized into HE-treatment and control groups of 90 schools each as well as into SP-treatment and control groups of 90 schools each in a cross-cutting manner.

Experimental Design Details

Randomization Method

Randomization is done by using the excel program.

Randomization Unit

School

Was the treatment clustered?

Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters

180 schools

Sample size: planned number of observations

7200 pupils for the baseline and 9000 pupils for the endline

Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms

90 HE-treatment schools (of which 45 are SP-treatment schools); 90 control schools (of which 45 are SP-treatment schools)

Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)

he sample size calculation at the time of the baseline survey was based on the expected improvement of 0.15 standardized effect size in child health indicators, detected with 80% power and a 5% significance level, assuming the school level covariate to explain 2.5% of the variance.

Supporting Documents and Materials

IRB