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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Cluster-randomized trials (CRTs) are crucial for preventing arboviral diseases.
  • Balancing treatment arms across covariates and geographic sectors is essential in CRTs.
  • Maintaining covariate balance after cluster substitution is a challenge in field studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate an algorithm for cluster substitution in CRTs.
  • To ensure covariate balance is maintained throughout the trial, even with substitutions.
  • To enhance the robustness of CRTs for arboviral disease prevention.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a novel algorithm for cluster selection and substitution in CRTs.
  • Algorithm maximizes pairwise distance between clusters to minimize contamination.
  • Algorithm ensures covariate balance is preserved before and after cluster substitutions.

Main Results:

  • The algorithm successfully identified cluster subsets that maximized spatial dispersion.
  • Covariate balance was maintained both before and after cluster substitutions.
  • Simulations confirmed the algorithm's effectiveness across various trial parameters.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed algorithm offers optional extensions to standard covariate-constrained randomization.
  • These extensions facilitate spatial dispersion, cluster subsampling, and cluster substitution.
  • The algorithm can be implemented without compromising statistical validity if sufficient clusters are available.