ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2019
Impact of the "BALatrine" Intervention on Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections in Central Java, Indonesia: A Pilot Study.
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- Interventions to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene for preventing soil-transmitted helminth infection.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Trends of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Research in Indonesia: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of the BALatrine intervention on soil-transmitted helminth infections in Central Java, Indonesia: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.Nature communications · 2026Trial
- Long-term usage, condition, and cultural acceptability of the BALatrine project: findings from a subsidised sanitation improvement intervention in rural Central Java, Indonesia.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2026Article
- Model validation for a knowledge and practices survey towards prevention of soil-transmitted helminth infections in rural villages in Indonesia.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Community engagement in health services research on soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Asia Pacific region: Systematic review.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Health Risk Assessment for Exposure to Nitrate in Drinking Water in Central Java, Indonesia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The Contribution of Community Health Education to Sustainable Control of the Neglected Zoonotic Diseases.Frontiers in public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
Many latrine campaigns in developing countries fail to be sustained because the introduced latrine is not appropriate to local socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions, and there is an inadequate community health education component. We tested a low-cost, locally designed and constructed all-weather latrine (the "BALatrine"), together with community education promoting appropriate hygiene-related behaviour, to determine whether this integrated intervention effectively controlled soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections. We undertook a pilot intervention study in two villages in Central Java, Indonesia. The villages were randomly allocated to either control or intervention with the intervention village receiving the BALatrine program and the control village receiving no program. STH-infection status was measured using the faecal flotation diagnostic method, before and eight months after the intervention. Over 8 months, the cumulative incidence of STH infection was significantly lower in the intervention village than in the control village: 13.4% vs. 27.5% (67/244 vs. 38/283,
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