Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34855513›Full record

Trial reportScience (New York, N.Y.)2022

Impact of community masking on COVID-19: A cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh.

Jason Abaluck, Laura H Kwong, Ashley Styczynski, Ashraful Haque, Md Alamgir Kabir, Ellen Bates-Jefferys, Emily Crawford, Jade Benjamin-Chung, Shabib Raihan, Shadman Rahman and 12 more

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Trial report in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 158 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
158citing papers in PubMed, 13 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

158 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Guideline
  2. Pooled it
  3. Pooled it
  4. Pooled it
  5. Pooled it
  6. Child mask mandates for COVID-19: a systematic review.Archives of disease in childhood · 2024
    Pooled it
  7. Pooled it
  8. Effectiveness of face masks for reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2: a rapid systematic review.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2023
    Pooled it
  9. Pooled it
  10. Pooled it
  11. Pooled it
  12. Pooled it
  13. Pooled it
  14. Trial
  15. Trial
  16. Trial
  17. Trial
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Article

98 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Jason Abaluck *Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0932-9369
Laura H Kwong *Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9776-9355
Ashley Styczynski *Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4682-8087
Ashraful HaqueInnovations for Poverty Action Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0002-0764-359X
Md Alamgir KabirInnovations for Poverty Action Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0002-4332-9864
Ellen Bates-JefferysInnovations for Poverty Action, Evanston, IL, USA.
Emily CrawfordYale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Jade Benjamin-ChungDepartment of Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3631-3132
Shabib RaihanInnovations for Poverty Action Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0002-4125-1207
Shadman RahmanInnovations for Poverty Action Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Salim BenhachmiYale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3739-8230
Neeti Zaman BinteeInnovations for Poverty Action Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Peter J WinchSocial and Behavioral Interventions Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8569-5507
Maqsud HossainNGRI, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0001-9794-411X
Hasan Mahmud RezaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0003-3287-942X
Abdullah All JaberNGRI, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0001-8964-7350
Shawkee Gulshan MomenNGRI, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0001-6703-1539
Aura RahmanNGRI, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0003-3244-5568
Faika Laz BantiNGRI, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0002-7394-7129
Tahrima Saiha HuqNGRI, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Stephen P Luby *Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5385-899X
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak *Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1916-3438

Funding

Measuring spillover effects of reactive, focal malaria elimination interventionsK01AI141616 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI BENJAMIN-CHUNG, JADE · 2019 to 2022
$601k
NIAID NIH HHS K01 AI141616
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We conducted a cluster-randomized trial to measure the effect of community-level mask distribution and promotion on symptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in rural Bangladesh from November 2020 to April 2021 (

Indexed as

Communicable Disease ControlHealth PromotionMasksAge FactorsBangladeshCluster AnalysisCOVID-19FemaleHumansMalePhysical DistancingPublic HealthRural PopulationSeroepidemiologic StudiesSex Factors

Identifiers

PMID34855513
PMCPMC9036942

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.