ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2017
Nonrandomized Trial of Feasibility and Acceptability of Strategies for Promotion of Soapy Water as a Handwashing Agent in Rural Bangladesh.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Predictors of trachoma among children aged 1-9 years in Ethiopia: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Acceptability measures of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in low- and middle-income countries, a systematic review.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Pooled it
- Achieving equitable uptake of handwashing and sanitation by addressing both supply and demand-based constraints: findings from a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh.International journal for equity in health · 2021Trial
- Complementary feeding practices among rural Bangladeshi mothers: Results from WASH Benefits study.Maternal & child nutrition · 2019Trial
- Effects of Water, Sanitation, Handwashing, and Nutritional Interventions on Child Enteric Protozoan Infections in Rural Bangladesh: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2018Trial
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- WASH Benefits Bangladesh trial: management structure for achieving high coverage in an efficacy trial.Trials · 2018Trial
- Seasonally Varying Effects of Improved Water, Sanitation, and Handwashing Interventions onOpen forum infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Evaluating the acceptability of a portable handwashing intervention (the Spatap) in three Fijian communities, a mixed-methods study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- "Gives us peace of mind for keeping our hands clean": targeted handwashing intervention increases water use and hand hygiene in rural Alaska.International journal of circumpolar health · 2025Article
- Seasonally varying effects of improved water, sanitation and handwashing interventions on Giardia infection in Bangladesh.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Access to and Use of Hand Hygiene Resources during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Districts in Uganda, January-April 2021.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- Individual and Community-Level Risk Factors for Giardiasis in Children under Five Years of Age in Pakistan: A Prospective Multi-Regional Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- What are the barriers and facilitators to community handwashing with water and soap? A systematic review.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Anthropometric Indices of Giardia-Infected Under-Five Children Presenting with Moderate-to-Severe Diarrhea and Their Healthy Community Controls: Data from the Global Enteric Multicenter Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Costs of hand hygiene for all in household settings: estimating the price tag for the 46 least developed countries.BMJ global health · 2021Article
- 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
- Barriers and Opportunities for Sustainable Hand Hygiene Interventions in Rural Liberian Hospitals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Could Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Be an Option for Hand Hygiene for Households in Rural Bangladesh?The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2021Article
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Abstract
We conducted a nonrandomized trial of strategies to promote soapy water for handwashing in rural Bangladesh and measured uptake. We enrolled households with children < 3 years for three progressively intensive study arms: promotion of soapy water (
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