Cluster-randomised trial of the impact of school-based deworming and iron supplementation on the cognitive abilities of schoolchildren in Sri Lanka's plantation sector

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 942-951

  Ebenezer, Roshini ^a   Gunawardena, Kithsiri ^b   Kumarendran, Balachandran ^b   Pathmeswaran, Arunasalam ^b   Jukes, Matthew C H ^c   Drake, Lesley J ^d   de Silva, Nilanthi ^b  

^a WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Deworming; Educational achievement; Iron supplementation; School health and nutrition; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

FERROUS SULFATE; HEMOGLOBIN; MEBENDAZOLE; PLACEBO;

CHILD HEALTH; COGNITION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; FLATWORM; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; IRON; PRECISION; PRIMARY EDUCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLANTATION; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SRI LANKA; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; WORM EXPULSION;

COGNITION; DEWORMING; EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT; IRON SUPPLEMENTATION; SCHOOL HEALTH AND NUTRITION; SRI LANKA;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; ASCARIS; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FECES; FEMALE; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEBENDAZOLE; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PLACEBOS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SRI LANKA; TRICHURIS;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 84880288978     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12128     Document Type: Article

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