Trial reportTransactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene2016
The impact of a rural sanitation programme on safe disposal of child faeces: a cluster randomised trial in Odisha, India.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Does owning improved latrine facilities enhance the safe disposal of child feces in Africa? a systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Effectiveness of community and school-based sanitation interventions in improving latrine coverage: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled interventions.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Interventions to improve disposal of child faeces for preventing diarrhoea and soil-transmitted helminth infection.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Examining toilet use and menstrual hygiene practices among beneficiary households of Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan (Clean India Mission) in rural areas of Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2024Article
- Formative Research Using Settings and Motives to Explore Child Faeces Disposal and Management in Rural Solomon Islands.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Household sanitation and menstrual hygiene management among women: Evidence from household survey under Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Mission in rural Odisha, India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 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
- Unsafe child feces disposal status in Ethiopia: what factors matter? Analysis of pooled data from four demographic and health surveys.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Practices and Perspectives on Latrine Use, Child Feces Disposal, and Clean Play Environments in Western Kenya.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Child feces management practices and fecal contamination: A cross-sectional study in rural Odisha, India.The Science of the total environment · 2020Article
- Determinants of disposal of child faeces in latrines in urban slums of Odisha, India: a cross-sectional study.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2019Article
- Child Defecation and Feces Disposal Practices and Determinants among Households after a Combined Household-Level Piped Water and Sanitation Intervention in Rural Odisha, India.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2019Article
- A cluster-randomized multi-level intervention to increase latrine use and safe disposal of child feces in rural Odisha, India: the Sundara Grama research protocol.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Epidemiological investigation and management of bloody diarrhea among children in India.PloS one · 2019Article
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- Identifying Potential Sources of Exposure Along the Child Feces Management Pathway: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Urban Slums in Odisha, India.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2017Article
- Effect of Positive Deviance Approach on Promotion of Safe Disposal of Child's Feces in Rural Tamil Nadu: A Community-Based Quasi-Experimental Study.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social MedicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundUnsafe disposal of child faeces is persistent and may lead to considerable impact on the health of young children. Research is limited on the impact of sanitation or hygiene interventions to improve child faeces disposal practices.
methodsIn the context of a randomised controlled trial to assess the health impact of a programme in Odisha, India, to promote rural sanitation under the Government of India's Total Sanitation Campaign, we explored whether the intervention affected the safe disposal of faeces of children under-5 years of age.
resultsAt baseline, 1.1% of households practised 'safe' disposal of child faeces, either disposing it in a toilet or by burial. The intervention increased safe disposal of child faeces to 10.4% in intervention households, compared to 3.1% in the control households (RR 3.34; 95% CI 1.99-5.59). This increase in safe disposal is attributable to increases in latrine presence in the intervention communities; the intervention did not change safe disposal practices above and beyond the increase in latrine coverage.
conclusionsThe very modest increase in safe disposal, while statistically significant, is not likely to have consequential health benefit. To achieve open defecation free communities, sanitation interventions will need to develop behaviour change approaches to explicitly target safe disposal behaviours.
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