Table 3 Studies documenting community engagement activities only (n = 12, in chronological order)

Butler 1943, South Pacific [36]

12–16%

Before and after

Study was largely a review of the Us Navy’s malaria control program implemented on an unspecified occupied island in the South Pacific. Natives of 2 villages were recruited into the study

Mepacrine

NR

Berberian 1948a, Lebanon [26]

NR

Non-RCT

All persons aged above 6 months of Saideh village

Chloroquine

NR

Chaudhuri 1950a, India [83]

50%

Non-RCT

Only children were participants in the study

Proguanil

NR

Edeson 1957, Malaysia [84]

29%

Non-RCT

All ages except infants. Inhabitants of rural rice growing area of Negri Sembilan state

Proguanil

NR

Gabaldon 1959, Venezuela [39]

0.24%

Before and after

Population of eastern and western Venezuela. All persons aged >1 month

Pyrimethamine

IRS with DDT

Clyde 1961a, Tanzania [32]

Morbidity rate: 76.1%

Parasitemia in european children: 11.5%

Before and after

Europeans living in Tanga

Quinine

Bed nets

Charles 1962, Ghana [33]

55.3%

Before and after

All aged residents of Akrofu villages

Pyrimethamine

NR

Sehgal 1968, India [37]

1.8%

Before and after

All individuals except the very sick, old and the pregnant women

NR

Irs with ddt

Omer 1978, Sudan [85]

40.5%

Non-RCT

All residents of 4 villages in Gezira ecological area of Northern Sudan

Chloroquine

NR

Maccormack 1983, Tanzania [47]

NR

Non-RCT

The age range of the participants was 0–15 years

Chloroquine

NR

Dapeng 1996, China [38]

0.8/1000 population/month in 1984

Before and after

All residents within high incidence areas in 4 counties in Xinyang prefecture

Chloroquine + primaquine

Irs with ddt, itns

Song 2010, Cambodia [43]

2–50%

Before and after

All residents above 1 year from 17 villages with parasite rates 20% or higher in Kampong Speu Province

Artemisinin + piperaquine + primaquine

NR