Addressing information and credit barriers to making India open defecation free and improving child health: Evidence from a cluster randomized trial in rural India
Payal Seth e outros, 2025 · PLOS One
Combining a community-led sanitation behavior change campaign with a 75% toilet construction subsidy increased child weight-for-age z-scores by 0.68 standard deviations.
Estimativa · Weight-for-age z-score (standard deviations)
0,680 [0,0920; 1,27]
standard deviations · calculado a partir do erro-padrão
p < 0.05
- Desenho
- Experimento aleatório por conglomerados. Cluster randomized controlled trial across 15 villages
- População
- Children under five in 15 rural villages in Maharajganj district, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2017–2019
- Amostra
- 426 · child-round observations from a panel of 213 children under five across baseline and endline
Onde está o número
Table 4, column (4), row 'Importance of BCC + toilet construction (cluster A)'
Importance of BCC + toilet construction (cluster A) | 0.69**/*** | 0.68** | 0.68** | 0.68** | (0.29) | (0.30) | (0.30) | (0.30)
Contexto
What changed: Villages received a community-led total sanitation behavior change campaign, temporary latrines, and a 75% subsidy for permanent household toilet construction. Comparison: Control villages receiving no intervention. Limits: Trial encompassed only 15 villages in one district of Uttar Pradesh; child health impacts were evaluated approximately one year after toilet construction.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaTransferências, subsídios e financiamento
- TipoSubsídios
- MecanismoAdoção de cuidados preventivos de saúde
- ResultadoSaúde infantil
- EixoSaúde
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Lugares do estudo
- Maharajganj district · Distrito ou local · IN
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23