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UV Water Treatment Device

Active UV Device for Gastroenteritis

N/A

Waitlist Available

Led By Heather Murphy, PhD

Research Sponsored by Temple University

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

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Must have

Be younger than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up 12 months

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will test whether consuming well water treated by ultraviolet light decreases the incidence of gastrointestinal illness and respiratory infections in children under 5.

Eligible Conditions

Gastroenteritis
Viral Respiratory Infection

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ 12 months

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~12 months

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 12 months for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Incident gastrointestinal illness

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Active Control

Placebo Group

Group I: Active UV DeviceActive Control1 Intervention

A household water treatment device with a lamp emitting germicidal UV. The device will be operated at 50 millijoule per square centimeter to treat >99.9% of all bacteria, protozoa, and most viruses in water supplies.

Group II: Inactive UV DevicePlacebo Group1 Intervention

A device that appears identical to the active comparator device except the lamp will not emit germicidal UV.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Pennsylvania Department of HealthOTHER_GOV

41 Previous Clinical Trials

998,367 Total Patients Enrolled

Temple UniversityLead Sponsor

297 Previous Clinical Trials

82,945 Total Patients Enrolled

Heather Murphy, PhDPrincipal Investigator - Assistant Professor

Temple University

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Do I meet the prerequisites to participate in this research?

"The enrolment criteria for this trial requires that the participant is between 6 months old and 5 years old. There are plans to recruit 28 individuals in total."

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Is the participant pool of this experiment restricted to adults?

"As per the stated enrollment criteria, this trial is open to children between 6 Months and 59 Months of age. Additionally, there are 221 studies targeting minors as well as 655 trials focusing on older individuals."

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Are there any vacancies for trial participants?

"As documented on clinicaltrials.gov, this research initiative is no longer enlisting participants having first appeared on the platform June 30th 2020 and last edited July 29th 2022. However, 837 other trials are currently open to enrolment."

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Recent research and studies

Journal of Gastroenterology and HepatologyJournal

Cost of Community Gastroenteritis

HELLARD, MARGARET E, MARTHAI SINCLAIR, ANTHONY H HARRIS, MARTYN KIRK, and CHRISTOPHER K FAIRLEY. 2003. “Cost of Community Gastroenteritis”. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Wiley. doi:10.1046/j.1440-1746.2003.02959.x.

Epidemiology and InfectionJournal

The Study of Infectious Intestinal Disease in England: Socio-economic Impact

ROBERTS, J. A., P. CUMBERLAND, P. N. SOCKETT, J. WHEELER, L. C. RODRIGUES, D. SETHI, P. J. RODERICK, and on behalf of the IID Study Executive. 2003. “The Study of Infectious Intestinal Disease in England: Socio-economic Impact”. Epidemiology and Infection. Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi:10.1017/s0950268802007690.

Science of The Total EnvironmentJournal

Estimating Domestic Well Locations and Populations Served in the Contiguous U.S. For Years 2000 and 2010

Johnson, Tyler D., Kenneth Belitz, and Melissa A. Lombard. 2019. “Estimating Domestic Well Locations and Populations Served in the Contiguous U.S. For Years 2000 and 2010”. Science of the Total Environment. Elsevier BV. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.036.

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