CoDe-STH Trial sub-study: Raising Evidence to Expand Deworming to Entire Communities: Acceptability and Feasibility of Deworming Programs for Soil-transmitted Helminth Infections in Dak Lak Province, Vietnam
This acceptability and feasibility component of the main CoDe-STH trial will try to understand different perspectives on giving deworming medication in the community to everyone compared with just children at schools. For example, how acceptable and how feasible the community-based approach is compared with the school-based approach.
| Countries | South – East Asian Countries |
| Diseases | STH |
| Drugs | Albendazole |
| Research Discipline | Social Science Research |
| Contact Person | Associate Professor Susana Vaz Nery |
| Link to Project | https://kirby.unsw.edu.au/project/community-deworming-against-soil-tran… |
| Partner Organisations or Research Institutions involved | Tay Nguyen University, Dak Lak Province, Vietnam Center for Parasitic Diseases Control & Prevention, Dak Lak Province, Vietnam Department of Education & Training, Dak Lak Province, Vietnam University of Melbourne Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands |
| Approximate project duration | 2018 – 2021 |
Carrying out focus group discussions with male community members to understand their knowledge about soil transmitted helminths, and their views on community- versus school-based distribution of deworming medication.