To assess whether indoor residual spraying can provide additional protection against clinical malaria over current best practice of long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets in The Gambia: study protocol for a two-armed cluster-randomised trial

Table 1 Timetable of activities

Activity	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D
2010
Senior staff recruitment	X
Ethical approval	X	X
Order and shipment of equipment		X	X	X
Field staff recruitment & training			X	X
Training of sprayteams, planning IRS				X
Sensitisation of study population			X	X	X
Enumeration & house selection for entomology						X
House spraying & LLIN distribution					X	X
Selection subjects, PCD, & travel monitoring						X	X	X	X	X	X
Entomological surveys						X	X	X	X	X	X
Clinical & bednet surveys						X					X	X
Data programming and entry					X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
2011
Steering Group Meeting in The Gambia			X
ELISA and PCR assays	X	X	X
Data entry cleaning & report writing	X	X	X	X
Sensitisation of study population			X	X
House selection for entomology				X	X
House spraying & LLIN distribution					X	X
Replace subjects, PCD & travel monitoring						X	X	X	X	X	X
Entomological surveys						X	X	X	X	X	X
Cost data collection									X	X
Clinical & bednet surveys											X	X
Data analysis											X	X
Data entry						X	X	X	X	X	X	X
2012
Data entry, cleaning & analysis	X	X	X	X
Steering Group Meeting in the UK				X
Report findings to study communities					X
Data analysis & report writing					X	X	X	X	X
Cost effectiveness analysis					X
Final report to the Steering Committee										X
Report findings to Gambian Government											X
Scientific paper writing			X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X

ISSN: 1745-6215