Commentary: Deworming externalities and schooling impacts in Kenya: a comment on Aiken et al. (2015) and Davey et al. (2015).

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Cognitive deficits and educational loss in children with schistosome infection-A systematic review and meta-analysis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018
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2. Soil-transmitted helminth infection, loss of education and cognitive impairment in school-aged children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018
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3. Complexities and Perplexities: A Critical Appraisal of the Evidence for Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection-Related Morbidity.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2016
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4. Effect of Deworming on Indices of Health, Cognition, and Education Among Schoolchildren in Rural China: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2017
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8. Mass deworming for improving health and cognition of children in endemic helminth areas: A systematic review and individual participant data network meta-analysis.Campbell systematic reviews · 2019
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9. The impact of mass deworming programmes on schooling and economic development: an appraisal of long-term studies.International journal of epidemiology · 2016
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10. Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment.The quarterly journal of economics · 2016
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11. The effect of deworming on early childhood development in Peru: A randomized controlled trial.SSM - population health · 2015
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12. The Case for Mass Treatment of Intestinal Helminths in Endemic Areas.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2015
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Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Authors' Response to: Deworming externalities and school impacts in Kenya.2015
• Comment on
  Re-analysis of health and educational impacts of a school-based deworming programme in western Kenya: a pure replication.2015
• Comment on
  Re-analysis of health and educational impacts of a school-based deworming programme in western Kenya: a statistical replication of a cluster quasi-randomized stepped-wedge trial.2015

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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