Trial design and participants
malaria
MALARIA
A 1:1 two-arm parallel open cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted to address the trial objectives. The trial was registered in Pan African Clinical Trials Registry (PACTR202001837195738). Clusters are primary schools that are found in malaria transmission settings in the two districts and enrolled at least 72 children aged 5–14 years. There were a total of 32 eligible primary schools in the two districts. Half of these schools were allocated to the intervention and the other half in the control groups. From each of these schools, 72 children attending their education from grade one to three, mentally fit to respond questions directed to them and without any physical problem to measure their height were included in the study. The selected 72 children and one of their parents in the intervention schools and only the selected SAC from the control arm of the trial participated in the study. An equal number of children were approached to be enrolled in the study from each school. The cluster randomized trial was used to minimize the information contamination from the intervention schools to the people in the control schools.