Determining the Impact of a School-Based Health Education Package for Prevention of Intestinal Worm Infections in the Philippines: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Intervention Trial

Mary Lorraine S Mationg   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Gail M Williams   ³ , PhD ;   Veronica L Tallo   ² , PhD ;   Remigio M Olveda   ² , MD ;   Eindra Aung   ^{1, 4} , PhD ;   Portia Alday   ² , BSc ;   Mark Donald Reñosa   ² , PhD ;   Chona Mae Daga   ² , MPH ;   Jhoys Landicho   ² , BSc ;   Maria Paz Demonteverde   ² , BSc ;   Eunice Dianne Santos   ² , BSc ;   Thea Andrea Bravo   ² , BSc ;   Franziska A Angly Bieri   ¹ , PhD ;   Yuesheng Li   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Archie C A Clements   ⁷ , PhD ;   Peter Steinmann   ^{8, 9} , PhD ;   Kate Halton   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Donald E Stewart   ^{1, 11} , PhD ;   Donald P McManus   ^{5 *} , DSc ;   Darren J Gray   ^{1 *} , PhD

¹ Research School of Population Heath, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Manila, Philippines

³ School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

⁴ St Vincent’s Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

⁵ Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Division, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

⁶ Hunan Institute of Parasitic Diseases, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Control on Schistosomiasis in Lake Region, Yueyang, China

⁷ Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

⁸ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

⁹ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

¹⁰ School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

¹¹ School of Medicine, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

*these authors contributed equally