1. Reanalysis of cluster randomised trial data to account for exposure misclassification using a per-protocol and complier-restricted approach.
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Tanamas, Stephanie, Indriani, Citra, Ahmad, Riris, Utarini, Adi, Jewell, Nicholas, Simmons, Cameron, Anders, Katherine, and Dufault, Suzanne
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Humans ,Wolbachia ,Aedes ,Animals ,Dengue ,Mosquito Vectors ,Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic ,Cluster Analysis ,Mosquito Control ,Female - Abstract
The intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis of the Applying Wolbachia to Eliminate Dengue (AWED) trial estimated a protective efficacy of 77.1% for participants resident in areas randomised to receive releases of wMel-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, an emerging dengue preventive intervention. The limiting assumptions of ITT analyses in cluster randomised trials and the mobility of mosquitoes and humans across cluster boundaries indicate the primary analysis is likely to underestimate the full public health benefit. Using spatiotemporally-resolved data on the distribution of Wolbachia mosquitoes and on the mobility of AWED participants (n = 6306), we perform complier-restricted and per-protocol re-examinations of the efficacy of the Wolbachia intervention. Increased intervention efficacy was estimated in all analyses by the refined exposure measures. The complier-restricted analysis returned an estimated efficacy of 80.7% (95% CI 65.9, 89.0) and the per-protocol analysis estimated 82.7% (71.7, 88.4) efficacy when comparing participants with an estimated wMel exposure of ≥ 80% compared to those with
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- 2024