The Global Trachoma Mapping Project: Methodology of a 34-Country Population-Based Study
| Autor: | Agatha Aboe, Sheila K. West, Brian K. Chu, Alexandre L. Pavluck, Neal Alexander, Erik Harvey, Simon Brooker, Susan Lewallen, Virginia Sarah, Jonathan D. King, Teshome Gebre, Allen Foster, Caleb Mpyet, Hugh R. Taylor, Joseph Pearce, Berhanu Bero, Anna Massey, Menbere Alemu, Alemayehu Sisay, Tom Millar, Solomon Gadisa, Jo Thomson, Addis Mekasha, Dominic Haslam, Amir Bedri Kello, Danny Haddad, Rebecca Willis, Els Mathieu, Jeremiah Ngondi, Anthony W. Solomon, Rebecca M. Flueckiger, Stephanie Ogden, Silvio P Mariotti, Jennifer L. Smith, Chad MacArthur, Liknaw Adamu, Thomas M. Lietman, Simon Bush, Paul Courtright, Richard Le Mesurier, Paul M. Emerson, Michael Dejene, Beatriz Munoz, Zelalem Habtamu, Katherine Gass, Wondu Alemayehu |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Trichiasis Sanitation Adolescent Endemic Diseases Epidemiology media_common.quotation_subject 030231 tropical medicine Population Blindness Global Health Community Health Planning 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Personal hygiene Hygiene Water Supply Environmental health Global health medicine Prevalence Cluster Analysis Humans education Child media_common Trachoma education.field_of_study business.industry prevalence study Infant Original Articles medicine.disease Health Surveys 3. Good health Ophthalmology mHealth Child Preschool 030221 ophthalmology & optometry Neglected tropical diseases Female business |
| Zdroj: | Ophthalmic Epidemiology |
| ISSN: | 0928-6586 |
| Popis: | Purpose: To complete the baseline trachoma map worldwide by conducting population-based surveys in an estimated 1238 suspected endemic districts of 34 countries. Methods: A series of national and sub-national projects owned, managed and staffed by ministries of health, conduct house-to-house cluster random sample surveys in evaluation units, which generally correspond to “health district” size: populations of 100,000–250,000 people. In each evaluation unit, we invite all residents aged 1 year and older from h households in each of c clusters to be examined for clinical signs of trachoma, where h is the number of households that can be seen by 1 team in 1 day, and the product h × c is calculated to facilitate recruitment of 1019 children aged 1–9 years. In addition to individual-level demographic and clinical data, household-level water, sanitation and hygiene data are entered into the purpose-built LINKS application on Android smartphones, transmitted to the Cloud, and cleaned, analyzed and ministry-of-health-approved via a secure web-based portal. The main outcome measures are the evaluation unit-level prevalence of follicular trachoma in children aged 1–9 years, prevalence of trachomatous trichiasis in adults aged 15 + years, percentage of households using safe methods for disposal of human feces, and percentage of households with proximate access to water for personal hygiene purposes. Results: In the first year of fieldwork, 347 field teams commenced work in 21 projects in 7 countries. Conclusion: With an approach that is innovative in design and scale, we aim to complete baseline mapping of trachoma throughout the world in 2015. |
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