Table 2.

Recommended criteria for future SCH and SCH reporting, including age categorisation

Criteria	Definitions
Year(s) of study completion	Year and month—relevance for seasonality in future analyses
No. of participants	Overall and age/sex breakdowns
Sex ratio	Overall and in each age category
Age mid-point	Mean not median
Age breakdown	Standardised age boundaries—age range or each year of age
Prevalence of parasites	Defined numbers—number infected and/or percentage
Intensity of parasites	Calculated using arithmetic not geometric mean
Co-prevalent parasites	Named species found in a single sample
Diagnostic used	Named method and number of replicates (slides and/or days)
Participants treated before	Any exclusion criteria, e.g. anyone treated 1 month prior to study
Treatment offered	Name of drug, dose, days taken. Always to be free to participant
Location of study	GPS coordinates of site(s), or woreda name if privacy concerns dictate
Age groups	Suggested age boundaries
pre-SAC	0–4 Years of age
SAC	5–14 Years of age
Adolescents	14–21 Years of age
Adult	22+ Years of age

GPS Global positioning system; for other abbreviations, see Table 1