TrialID Country | Who was treated? (Age) | How long was the follow‐up? | Trialdesign? (No. of participantsa) | Was it a cluster‐RCT? (No. of clusters) | What intervention? (Dose) | Co‐interventions?b | What control? | How long was the treatment? | Endemic area? (Community category number) |
Alderman 2006 (Cluster) Uganda |
Children (1 to 7 years) | 3 years | RCT (27,995) | Yes (48) | Albendazole (400 mg) | Child health package – both groups | No treatment | Every 6 months | Yes (2) |
Awasthi 1995 (Cluster) India |
Children (1 to 4 years) | 2 years | Quasi‐RCT (3712) | Yes (50) | Albendazole (400 mg) | None | Placebo | Every 6 months | Yes (3) |
Awasthi 2000 India |
Children (1.5 to 3.5 years) | 2 years | Quasi‐RCT (1045) | No | Albendazole (600 mg) | None | Placebo | Every 6 months | Yes (3) |
Awasthi 2001 (Cluster) India |
Children (1 to 4 years) | 1.5 years | RCT (1672) | Yes (124) | Albendazole ± vitamin A (100,000 units) | Child health package – both groups | Placebo + vitamin A | Every 6 months | Yes (3) |
Awasthi 2013 (Cluster) India |
Children (≤ 5 years) | 5 years | RCT factorial (8338) | Yes (72) | Albendazole (400 mg) ± vitamin A | Child health package – both groups | Usual care | Every 6 months | Yes (3) |
Beach 1999 Haiti |
Children (grades 1 to 4) | 4 months | RCT (853) | No | Albendazole (400 mg) Ivermectin (200 to 400 μg/kg) |
None | Placebo + vitamin C (250 mg) | Single dose | Yes (3) |
Donnen 1998 Zaire |
Children (0 to 72 months) | 1 year | RCT (222) | No | Mebendazole (500 mg) | None | Placebo + vitamin A (60 mg) No treatment |
Every 3 months | Yes (3) |
Dossa 2001 Benin |
Children (3 to 5 years) | 10 months | RCT (65) | No | Albendazole (200 mg) ± iron | None | Placebo | Repeated 1 month later | Yes (2) |
Fox 2005 Haiti |
Children (5 to 11 years) | 6 months | RCT (626) | No | Albendazole (400 mg) ± vitamin C (250 mg) Diethylcarbamazine (DEC, 6 mg/kg) |
None | Placebo | Single dose | Yes (2) |
Freij 1979a Ethiopia |
Children (1.5 to 5 years) | 28 days | Quasi‐RCT (13) | No | Piperazine (3 g) | Child health package – both groups | Placebo | Single dose | Infected children (unclear) |
Freij 1979b Ethiopia |
Children (1 to 5 years) | 34 days | Quasi‐RCT (44) | No | Piperazine (3 g x 2) | None | Placebo | Single dose | Infected children (3) |
Garg 2002 Kenya |
Children (2 to 4 years) | 6 months | RCT (347) | No | Mebendazole (500 mg) | Child health package – both groups | Placebo | Single dose | Yes (2) |
Goto 2009 Bangladesh |
Children (≤ 11 months) | 36 weeks | RCT (410) | No | Albendazole (200 mg) ± secnidazole (0.5 mL/kg, anti‐Giardia) | None | Placebo | Every 12 weeks | Yes (2) |
Greenberg 1981 Bangladesh |
Children (1.5 to 8 years) | 11 months | RCT (152) | No | Piperazine citrate (80 mg/kg) | None | Placebo | Two doses in 2 weeks | Yes (1) |
Hadju 1996 Indonesia |
Children (6 to 10 years) | 7 weeks | RCT (64) | No | Pyrantel pamoate (10 mg/kg) | None | Placebo | Single dose | Yes (1) |
Hadju 1997 Indonesia |
Children (± 8.3 years) | 1 year | RCT (330) | No | Albendazole (400 mg) Pyrantel pamoate (10 mg/kg) |
None | Placebo | Single dose or every 6 months | Yes (1) |
Hall 2006 (Cluster) Vietnam |
Children (± 104.5 months) | 2 years | RCT (2,659) | Yes (80) | Albendazole (400 mg) ± retinol (200,000 IU) | None | Placebo | Every 6 months | Yes (1) |
Kirwan 2010 Nigeria |
Children (1 to 5 years) | 14 months | RCT (320) | No | Albendazole (200 to 400 mg) | Child health package – both groups | Placebo | Every 4 months | Yes (3) |
Kloetzel 1982 Cameroon |
Children (1 to 8 years) | 10 months | RCT (337) | No | Mebendazole (100 mg x3) | None | Placebo | 3 doses in 3 days | Yes (1) |
Koroma 1996 Sierra Leone |
Children (6 to 10 years) | 6 months | RCT (187) | No | Albendazole (400 mg) | None | Placebo | Single dose | Yes (2) |
Kruger 1996 South Africa |
Children (6 to 8 years) | 11 months | RCT (74) | No | Albendazole (400 mg) ± soup fortified with iron and vitamin C | Child health package – both groups | Placebo | Repeated at 4 months | Yes (3) |
Kvalsvig 1991a South Africa |
Children (primary school) | 1 month | RCT (unclear) | No | Mebendazole (500 mg) | None | Placebo | Single dose | Infected children (1) |
Lai 1995 Malaysia |
Children (8 years) | 2 years | RCT (314) | No | Mebendazole (100 mg) + pyrantel (200 mg) | None | Placebo | Every 3 months | Yes (1) |
Le Huong 2007 Vietnam |
Children | 6 months | RCT factorial (510) | No | Mebendazole (500 mg) | Iron‐fortified noodles | Placebo | Twice 3 months apart | Yes (2) |
Michaelsen 1985 Botswana |
Children (5 to 14 years) | 5 months | RCT (121) | No | Tetrachloroethylene (0.1 mL/kg) | None | Placebo | Single dose | Yes (1) |
Miguel 2004 (Cluster) Kenya |
Children (8 years) | 2 years | RCT (9102) | Yes (65) | Albendazole (400 to 600 mg) | Child health package – only intervention group | No treatment | Every 6 months | Yes (1) |
Ndibazza 2012 Uganda |
Children (± 15 months) | Post‐treatment | RCT factorial (1423) | No | Albendazole (200 to 400 mg) | Child health package – both groups | Placebo | ?? | Yes (3) |
Nga 2009 Vietnam |
Children (6 to 8 years) | 4 months | RCT (510) | No | Albendazole (400 mg) ± multi‐micronutrient fortified biscuit | None | Placebo | Single dose | Yes (2) |
Nokes 1992 Jamaica |
Children (9 to 12 years) | 9 weeks | RCT (103) | No | Albendazole (400 mg x3) | None | Placebo | Single dose | Infected children (1) |
Olds 1999 China, Philippines and Kenya |
Children (school children) | 6 months | RCT (103) | No | Albendazole (400 mg) ± praziquantel (40 mg/kg) | None | Placebo | Single dose | Yes (1) |
Palupi 1997 Indonesia |
Children (2 to 5 years) | 9 weeks | RCT (191) | No | Albendazole (400 mg) | Iron | Iron (30 mg weekly) | Single dose | Yes (2) |
Rousham 1994 (Cluster) Bangladesh |
Children (2 to 6 years) | 18 months | RCT (1,402) | Yes (13) | Mebendazole (500 mg) Pyrantel pamoate (10 mg/kg) |
None | Placebo | Every 2 months | Yes (1) |
Sarkar 2002 Bangladesh |
Children (2 to 12 years) | 16 weeks | RCT (81) | No | Pyrantel pamoate (11 mg/kg) | None | Placebo | Single dose | Infected children (1) |
Simeon 1995 Jamaica |
Children (6 to 12 years) | 26 weeks | RCT (392) | No | Albendazole (800 mg) | None | Placebo | Repeated 3 to 6 months after | Infected children (1) |
Solon 2003 Philippines |
Children (grades 1 to 6) | 16 weeks | RCT (851) | No | Albendazole (400 mg) ± multivitamin and iron | None | Placebo | Repeated 3 to 6 months after | Yes (2) |
Stephenson 1989 Kenya |
Children (grades 1 to 2) | 6 months | RCT (150) | No | Albendazole (400 mg) | None | Placebo | Single dose | Yes (1) |
Stephenson 1993 Kenya |
Children (grades 1 to 5) | 8 months | RCT (284) | No | Albendazole (600 mg) | None | Placebo | Repeated 3 to 6 months after | Yes (1) |
Stoltzfus 1997 (Cluster) Tanzania, Zanzibar |
Children (± 10.5 years) | 12 months | RCT (3063) | Yes (12) | Mebendazole (500 mg, 2x or 3x) | None | Placebo | Every 4 or 6 months | Yes (1) |
Stoltzfus 2001 Tanzania, Zanzibar |
Children (6 to 59 months) | 12 months | RCT factorial (359) | No | Mebendazole (500 mg) ± iron | None | Placebo | Every 3 months | Yes (2) |
Sur 2005 India |
Children (2 to 5 years) | 12 months | RCT (683) | No | Albendazole (400 mg) ± vitamin B | None | Placebo | Every 6 months | Yes (2) |
Tee 2013 Malaysia |
Children | 12 months | RCT (33) | No | Albendazole (400 mg x 2) | None | Placebo | Single dose | Yes (NA) |
Watkins 1996 Guatemala |
Children (7 to 12 years) | 6 months | RCT (226) | No | Albendazole (400 mg) | None | Placebo | Repeated at 12 weeks | Yes (1) |
Willett 1979 Tanzania |
Children (6 to 91 months) | 12 months | RCT (268) | No | Levamisole (2.5 mg/kg) | None | Placebo | Every 3 months | Yes (3) |
Wiria 2013 (Cluster) Indonesia |
Children and adults ≥ 2 years | 21 months | RCT (855) | Yes (954) | Albendazole (400 mg x 3) | None | Placebo | Single dose | Yes (1) |
Yap 2014 Myanmar, China |
Children (9 to 12 years) | 6 months | RCT (194) | No | Albendazole (400 mg x 3) | None | Placebo | Single dose | Infected children (NA) |