Table 3.

Studies documenting community engagement activities only (n = 12, in chronological order)

Author, year and country	Epidemiology (baseline parasitemia)	Study type	Anti-malarial	Additional interventions
Butler 1943, South Pacific [36]	12–16%	Before and after Study was largely a review of the Us Navy’s malaria control program implemented on an unspecified occupied island in the South Pacific. Natives of 2 villages were recruited into the study	Mepacrine	NR
Berberian 1948a, Lebanon [26]	NR	Non-RCT All persons aged above 6 months of Saideh village	Chloroquine	NR
Chaudhuri 1950a, India [83]	50%	Non-RCT Only children were participants in the study	Proguanil	NR
Edeson 1957, Malaysia [84]	29%	Non-RCT All ages except infants. Inhabitants of rural rice growing area of Negri Sembilan state	Proguanil	NR
Gabaldon 1959, Venezuela [39]	0.24%	Before and after Population of eastern and western Venezuela. All persons aged >1 month	Pyrimethamine	IRS with DDT
Clyde 1961a, Tanzania [32]	Morbidity rate: 76.1% Parasitemia in european children: 11.5%	Before and after Europeans living in Tanga	Quinine	Bed nets
Charles 1962, Ghana [33]	55.3%	Before and after All aged residents of Akrofu villages	Pyrimethamine	NR
Sehgal 1968, India [37]	1.8%	Before and after All individuals except the very sick, old and the pregnant women	NR	Irs with ddt
Omer 1978, Sudan [85]	40.5%	Non-RCT All residents of 4 villages in Gezira ecological area of Northern Sudan	Chloroquine	NR
Maccormack 1983, Tanzania [47]	NR	Non-RCT The age range of the participants was 0–15 years	Chloroquine	NR
Dapeng 1996, China [38]	0.8/1000 population/month in 1984	Before and after All residents within high incidence areas in 4 counties in Xinyang prefecture	Chloroquine + primaquine	Irs with ddt, itns
Song 2010, Cambodia [43]	2–50%	Before and after All residents above 1 year from 17 villages with parasite rates 20% or higher in Kampong Speu Province	Artemisinin + piperaquine + primaquine	NR