Effects of household concrete floors on maternal and child health: the CRADLE trial - a randomised controlled trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Early life soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection and diarrhoea are associated with growth faltering, anaemia, impaired child development and mortality. Exposure to faecally contaminated soil inside the home may be a key contributor to enteric infections, and a large fraction of rural homes in low-income countries have soil floors. The objective of this study is to measure the effect of installing concrete floors in homes with soil floors on child STH infection and other maternal and child health outcomes in rural Bangladesh.

Methods and analysis

The Cement-based flooRs AnD chiLd hEalth trial is an individually randomised trial in Sirajganj and Tangail districts, Bangladesh. Households with a pregnant woman, a soil floor, walls that are not made of mud and no

SUBMITTER: Rahman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11877219 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature