Status:
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Heat Stress Exposure Among Low-Income Residents in Bangladesh and Evaluation of Indoor Interventions
Lead Sponsor:
University of California, Berkeley
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Conditions:
Heat Stress
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if infrastructure and equipment installed to cool homes reduce adverse health outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: What is the impact of the...
Detailed Description
During the last two decades, nearly half a million people died each year from heat-related causes; climate change is expected to exacerbate the burden of adverse health outcomes. Heat stress has been ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion Criteria for the house:
- House is located in an informal settlement in an urban area in Bangladesh
- The house has a corrugated iron roof and corrugated iron walls
- The household plans to remain in the house from Feb-Nov
- Exclusion Criteria for the house
- There is an inhabited structure about the house
- The landlord does not allow the proposed intervention
- Inclusion Criteria for the participant:
- Lives in an eligible household
- Exclusion Criteria for the participant
- Has access to air conditioning in their home or place of work
- Reports they are pregnant
- Has hypertension, as measured by study staff
- Has diabetes, as measured by study staff
- Self-reports cardiovascular disease / chronic cardiac condition
- Self-reports respiratory disease / chronic respiratory condition
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 18 2025
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
December 31 2028
Estimated Enrollment :
1539 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT06979258
Start Date
May 18 2025
End Date
December 31 2028
Last Update
May 18 2025
Active Locations (1)
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International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1212