NCT04633135: REACCTING

Research on Emissions, Air Quality, Climate and Cooking Technologies in Northern Ghana

Completed NA Last updated 18 November 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Philips stove in Inflammation in 200 participants. Completed in 31 December 2017.

Timeline

1 January 2012

Primary endpoint
31 December 2016

31 December 2017

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Colorado, Boulder
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	basic science
Enrollment	200
Start date	1 January 2012
Primary completion	31 December 2016
Estimated completion	31 December 2017

Drugs / interventions tested

• Philips stove
• Gyapa stove

Conditions studied

• Inflammation — all drugs for Inflammation →
• Growth Retardation — all drugs for Growth Retardation →

Sponsor

University of Colorado, Boulder

Who can join

Adults 0 to 55, any sex, with Inflammation or Growth Retardation. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

REACCTING (Research on Emissions, Air quality, Climate, and Cooking Technologies in Northern Ghana) is an interdisciplinary randomized cookstove intervention study in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana. The study tests two types of biomass burning stoves that have the potential to meet local cooking needs and represent different "rungs" in the cookstove technology ladder: a locally-made, low-tech Gyapa rocket stove and the imported, highly efficient Philips gasifier stove. Intervention households were randomized into four different groups, three of which received different combinations of two improved stoves, while the fourth group serves as a control for the duration of the study. Diverse measurements assess different points along the causal chain linking the intervention to final outcomes of interest. The investigators assess stove use and cooking behavior, cooking emissions, household air pollution and personal exposure, health burden, and local to regional air quality. Integrated analysis and modeling will tackle a range of interdisciplinary science questions, including examining ambient exposures among the regional population, assessing how those exposures might change with different technologies and behaviors, and estimating the comparative impact of local behavior and technological changes versus regional climate variability and change on local air quality and health outcomes.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Health impacts of a randomized biomass cookstove intervention in northern Ghana.
   Abdo M, Kanyomse E, Alirigia R, Coffey ER, et al · · 2021 · cited 7× · PMID 34863138 · DOI 10.1186/s12889-021-12164-y