Evaluating the Effect of Integration of Hygiene of Weaning Foods with Water and Sanitation on Diarrhoeal Disease in Under Fives (Malawi)

• Register: PACTR
• Last refreshed on: 29 May 2023
• Main ID: PACTR201703002084166
• Date of registration: 09/03/2017
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: SHARE - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Public title: Evaluating the Effect of Integration of Hygiene of Weaning Foods with Water and Sanitation on Diarrhoeal Disease in Under Fives (Malawi)
• Scientific title: Measure the relative impact of WASH and food hygiene interventions on diarrhoeal disease in children under 5 in Chikwawa District, Southern Malawi
• Date of first enrolment: 01/02/2017
• Target sample size: 1000
• Recruitment status: Recruiting
• URL: https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/TrialDisplay.aspx?TrialID=2084
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Parallel: different groups receive different interventions at same time during study,Non-randomised
• Phase: Not Applicable

Countries of recruitment

Malawi

Contacts

• Name: Temwa Msiska
• Affiliation: Research Manager

• Name: Sandy Cairncross
• Affiliation: Research Director for SHARE

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Eligible households will have a child between 3 months to 21 months at enrolment to ensure that children are not neonates and that all children are likely not be eating weaning foods throughout the study period. All eligible households will have a functional latrine (toilet)
All eligible households will reside within a 500m of a functioning borehole (protected water source).


Exclusion criteria: Household does not have a functional latrine (toilet)
Household is over 500m from the nearest functional borehole (protected water source)
Household does not have a child aged between 3 and 21 months.

Age minimum: 3 Month(s)
Age maximum: 21 Month(s)
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Paediatrics

Diarrhoea

Paediatrics
Diarrhoea

Intervention(s)

None

Water and Sanitation OR Hygiene of weaning foods only

Combined WASH and Hygiene of Weaning Foods

Primary Outcome(s)

Incidence of diarrhoea disease

Secondary Outcome(s)

Reduction of E coli in drinking water at household level

Reduced concentration of pathogens on food contact surfaces

Reduction in soil transmitted helminths in target children

Reduced concentration of pathogens in weaning foods

Observed change in hygiene related behaviours

Reduce incidence of acute respiratory infections

Reduced concentration of pathogens on caregiver hands

Reduced concentration of pathogens on target child hands

Reduced incidence of trachoma

Secondary ID(s)

P.04/16/1935

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity

Secondary Sponsor(s)

University of Strathclyde

University of Malawi - The Polytechnic

Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date: 30/06/2016
Contact:

College of Medicine Ethics Committee