Trial reportThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2011
The effects of informational interventions on household water management, hygiene behaviors, stored drinking water quality, and hand contamination in peri-urban Tanzania.
Trial report in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03021434 (Cluster Randomized Trial of Low-cost Microbiological Water Test Kits), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Cluster Randomized Trial of Low-cost Microbiological Water Test Kits
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Measuring User Compliance and Cost Effectiveness of Safe Drinking Water Programs: A Cluster-Randomized Study of Household Ultraviolet Disinfection in Rural Mexico.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2018Trial
- A Cluster Randomized Controlled Evaluation of the Health Impact of a Novel Antimicrobial Hand Towel on the Health of Children Under 2 Years Old in Rural Communities in Nyanza Province, Kenya.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2016Trial
- Water treatment and E. coli in drinking water: Household responses to (invisible) water quality risks.PloS one · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of a health education program on mothers' knowledge and practice regarding amebiasis.Journal of public health in Africa · 2023Article
- Does a school-based intervention to engage parents change opportunity for handwashing with soap at home? Practical experience from the Mikono Safi trial in Northwestern Tanzania.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Fear, Efficacy, and Environmental Health Risk Reporting: Complex Responses to Water Quality Test Results in Low-Income Communities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Interventions promoting uptake of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) technologies in low- and middle-income countries: An evidence and gap map of effectiveness studies.Campbell systematic reviews · 2021Article
- A culture-dependent and metagenomic approach of household drinking water from the source to point of use in a developing country.Water research X · 2019Article
- Quantification of Human Norovirus GII on Hands of Mothers with Children Under the Age of Five Years in Bagamoyo, Tanzania.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2015Article
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- The effect of water quality testing on household behavior: evidence from an experiment in rural India.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2012Article
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Abstract
Safe water storage and hand hygiene have been shown to reduce fecal contamination and improve health in experimental settings; however, triggering and sustaining such behaviors is challenging. This study investigates the extent to which personalized information about Escherichia coli contamination of stored water and hands influenced knowledge, reported behaviors, and subsequent contamination levels among 334 households with less than 5-year-old children in peri-urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. One-quarter of the study participants received information about strategies to reduce risk of water- and sanitation-related illness. Respondents in another three study cohorts received this same information, along with their household's water and/or hand-rinse test results. Findings from this study suggest that additional work is needed to elucidate the conditions under which such testing represents a cost-effective strategy to motivate improved household water management and hand hygiene.
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