Effectiveness of Permethrin Impregnated Underwear in Preventing Louse Proliferation in Infected Homeless

Overview

Homelessness, also name the fourth world, is a growing public health problem worldwide. Previous studies showed that up to 30% of the homeless people reported pruritus that often results in itchy lesions, which expose them to bacterial skin infections. The investigators therefore conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to test the hypothesis that a single oral dose of ivermectin was effective in significantly reducing the prevalence of pruritus in a sheltered homeless population.

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Treatment
    • Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: May 2012

Interventions

  • Drug: Permethrin impregnated
  • Drug: no Permethrin impregnated

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Placebo Comparator: no permethrin
  • Experimental: permethrin

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Show that underwear soaked with permethrine in 8 % allow to reduce in a long-lasting way (J90 and J365) of 50 % the index of infestation and prevalency of the louses in the group treated with regard to the group placebo.
    • Time Frame: 2 YEARS

Secondary Measures

  • Show that underwear soaked with permethrine in 8 % allow to reduce in a long-lasting way (J90 and J365) of 50 % the index of infestation and prevalency of the louses in the group treated with regard to the group placebo.
    • Time Frame: 2 years

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • Patient HOMELESS PERSON " individual who has no regular access to a conventional residence ", appearing during the period of study at reception centers (Forbin or Madrague Ville) and being in the habit of wearing there (at least 4 times a week), – Male genital organ and feminine, – Of more than 18 years old, – Presenting of the prurit, hurts of scratching or the louses – Wishing to change his underwear, – Having given his lit(enlightened) consent Exclusion Criteria:

  • Woman presenting a sexually transmitted infection (infection with gonococcus, with Chlamydia trachomatis, with Trichomonas vaginalis) revealing on the takings realized during the consultation of inclusion but the bacteriological results of which will be known only secondarily. – Pregnant Woman presenting to the consultation of inclusion of métrorragies either a break of the pocket of waters or an infectious complication of the pregnancy. – Woman removing her consent during the study. – Lost sight Woman. – Woman deprived of freedom, judicial or administrative; – Woman hospitalized for quite other reason that looks for her(it); – Woman hospitalized in a sanitary establishment or social in the other purposes that the research; – Major Woman except state to express its consent

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Sponsor
  • Overall Official(s)
    • BERNARD BELAIGUES, Study Director, Assistance Publique hôpitaux de Marseille

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