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Mitigating Heat Stress Among Rickshaw Drivers in Bangladesh

300 participantsStarted 2025-06-01

Plain-language summary

The goal of the experimental study is to understand the impact of heat stress on core temperature and telomere length. Investigators will recruit rickshaw drivers who use manual power to push their rickshaws and randomly assign half of them to receive battery-powered rickshaws to use for four months. Investigators will assess how this change impacts their core body temperature while they work, the length of their telomeres (caps on the end of DNA that are associated with aging), and kidney function.

Who can participate

Age range40 Years

SexMALE

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Inclusion Criteria: * Reports driving a manual rickshaw at least five days per week for at least 8 hours per day for the past 12 months Exclusion Criteria: * Reports driving a battery-powered rickshaw in the past 12 months * Has hypertension, as measured by our study staff * Has diabetes, as measured by our staff * Reports diagnosis with cardiovascular disease / chronic cardiac condition * Reports diagnosis with respiratory disease / chronic respiratory condition

What they're measuring

Core temperature

Timeframe: 0 (pre-intervention) and 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 weeks post-intervention

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06956430

SponsorUniversity of California, Berkeley

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2025-10-31

Contact for this trial

Laura Kwong, PhD

16504609593 lakwong@berkeley.edu

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