WASH Benefits Bangladesh

Recruiting

Trial ID: NCT01590095

Age - 1 Day-63 Years Gender - All Accepting Healthy Volunteers - yes

Purpose

Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to measure the independent and combined effects of interventions that improve water quality, sanitation, hand washing, and nutrition on child growth and development in the first years of life.

Official Title

WASH Benefits Bangladesh: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of the Benefits of Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Plus Nutrition Interventions on Child Growth

Stanford Investigator(s)

Stephen Luby

Eligibility


Inclusion Criteria:

(1) Infants (target child) will be eligible to participate in the study if they are:

   1. They are in utero at the baseline survey

   2. Their parents/guardians are planning to stay in the study village for the next 12
   months (if a mother is planning to give birth at her natal home and then return, she
   will still be a candidate for enrollment)

(2) Children < 36 months old at baseline that are living in the compound of a target child
will be eligible to participate in diarrhea measurement if:

   1. They are < 36 months old at the baseline survey

   2. Their parents/guardians are planning to stay in the study village for the next 12
   months

(3) Children 18 - 27 months old at baseline that are living in the compound of a target
child will be eligible to participate in intestinal parasite specimen collection if:

   1. They are 18 - 27 months old at the baseline survey

   2. Their parents/guardians are planning to stay in the study village for the next 12
   months

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Intervention(s):

behavioral: Water quality

behavioral: Sanitation

behavioral: Hand washing

behavioral: Water quality, Sanitation, Hand washing (Combined WASH)

behavioral: Nutrition

behavioral: Nutrition, Water quality, Sanitation, Hand washing

Recruiting

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