Effect of interventions to reduce malaria incidence among military personnel on active duty: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of the impact of etofenprox-treated uniforms, permethrin-treated uniforms and DEET insect repellent

Table 1 Inclusion, exclusion and withdrawal of trial participants

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria	Withdrawal criteria
New recruits to national service JKT at Mgambo and do not use any malaria prophylaxis	**Already employed military personnel	Participants who wish to use malaria prophylaxis in parallel with intervention provided
Member of a *combania	Not assigned to a combania	Participants who do not reside in combania dormitories
Passes physical examination—no underlying health risks	Underlying health risks—does not pass the physical examination (No recruits to JKT are accepted if they have chronic health problems.)	Acquired illness or physical condition that makes a participant permanently not involved in military instructions
Recruits who are not pregnant	(Pregnant people are not recruited to JKT.)	Participant known to have become pregnant
Consents to participate	Does not consent to participate	Withdraws consent to participate

*Recruits are grouped into companies, or combania, which will be the level of randomisation
**Employed military personnel are combat ready and can be deployed at any time to any mission. National service members are available for at least a year and are not involved in combat missions

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