Trial reportThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2012
A randomized controlled trial of the plastic-housing BioSand filter and its impact on diarrheal disease in Copan, Honduras.
Trial report in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines on Water Treatment for Wilderness, International Travel, and Austere Situations: 2024 Update.Wilderness & environmental medicine · 2024Guideline
- Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Water Disinfection for Wilderness, International Travel, and Austere Situations.Wilderness & environmental medicine · 2019Guideline
- Water, sanitation and hygiene interventions for acute childhood diarrhea: a systematic review to provide estimates for the Lives Saved Tool.BMC public health · 2017Pooled it
- Effects of Boiling Drinking Water on Diarrhea and Pathogen-Specific Infections in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2017Pooled it
- Type and extent of trans-disciplinary co-operation to improve food security, health and household environment in low and middle income countries: systematic review.BMC public health · 2016Pooled it
- Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Coliform bacteria as indicators of diarrheal risk in household drinking water: systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2014Pooled it
- Evaluation of the impact of the plastic BioSand filter on health and drinking water quality in rural Tamale, Ghana.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2012Trial
- Only Low Effects of Water Filters on the Enteric Carriage of Gastrointestinal Pathogen DNA in Colombian Indigenous People.Microorganisms · 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
- Narrative Review of Primary Preventive Interventions against Water-Borne Diseases: Scientific Evidence of Health-EDRM in Contexts with Inadequate Safe Drinking Water.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- An Application of the Integrated Behavioral Model for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene to Assess Perceived Community Acceptability and Feasibility of the Biosand Filter among Maasai Pastoralists in Rural Tanzania.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2021Article
- Evaluation of low-cost alternatives for water purification in the stilt house villages of Santa Marta's Ciénaga Grande.Heliyon · 2020Article
- Bacterial contamination on household toys and association with water, sanitation and hygiene conditions in Honduras.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2013Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Point of use drinking water treatment with the BioSand filter (BSF) allows people to treat their water in the home. The purpose of this research was to document the ability of the Hydraid plastic-housing BSF to reduce diarrheal disease in households who received a BSF in a randomized controlled trial. The trial of the Hydraid plastic-housing BSF was carried out in rural, mountainous communities in Copan, Honduras during April of 2008 to February of 2009. A logistic regression adjusting for clustering showed that the incidence of diarrheal disease in children under 5 years was reduced by approximately 45% (odds ratio = 0.55, 95% confidence interval = 0.28, 1.10) in households that had a BSF compared with those households without a BSF, but this finding fluctuated depending on season and was not statistically significant. Households with a BSF had significantly better drinking water quality regardless of water source or season.
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