Comparing the effect of independent and combined interventions of household chlorination and handwashing on diarrhea of under-fives in rural Dire Dawa, Eastern Ethiopia: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Ephrem Tefera Solomon e outros, 2021 · The Pan African Medical Journal
Providing free household water disinfectant and soap alongside hygiene promotion reduced diarrhoeal incidence among under-five children by roughly 41%.
Estimativa · Adjusted incidence rate ratio of diarrhea episodes per person-week
0,585 [0,530; 0,650]
adjusted incidence rate ratio
p: < 0.001
- Desenho
- Experimento aleatório por conglomerados. Cluster randomized controlled trial across 16 sub-kebeles randomized into 4 arms
- População
- Children aged 6 to 59 months and their caregivers in rural Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, followed for 16 weeks between October 2018 and January 2019
- Amostra
- 405 · under-five children across 8 clusters in the combined intervention and control arms
Onde está o número
Results; Table 2, row 'Combined intervention', column 'Adjusted IRR (95% CI)'
Similarly, in the combined arm, under-five children had lower risk of diarrhea (adjusted IRR = 0.585, 95% CI: 0.53 - 0.65) having adjusted for sex of the child, mother's education, father's occupation, family size, availability of latrine and availability of refuse disposal facility.
Contexto
What changed: Households received free monthly sodium hypochlorite (Waterguard) and soap along with bi-weekly visits coaching chlorination and handwashing at five critical times. Comparison: Households in the control arm continued their customary water handling and handwashing practices. Limits: Open-label design without blinding, potential recall bias from bi-weekly maternal reporting, and a four-month duration restricted to the dry season.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaInformação e persuasão
- TipoCampanha de informação
- MecanismoAdoção de cuidados preventivos de saúde
- ResultadoDoença diarreica
- EixoSaúde
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Lugares do estudo
- Dire Dawa · Estado ou região · ET
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23