Effect of community health clubs on child diarrhoea in western Rwanda: cluster-randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community health clubs are multi-session village-level gatherings led by trained facilitators and designed to promote healthy behaviours mainly related to water, sanitation, and hygiene. They have been implemented in several African and Asian countries but have never been evaluated rigorously. We aimed to evaluate the effect of two versions of the community health club model on child health and nutrition outcomes.

Methods

We did a cluster-randomised trial in Rusizi district, western Rwanda. We defined villages as clusters. We assessed villages for eligibility then randomly selected 150 for the study using a simple random sampling routine in Stata. We stratified villages by wealth index and by the proportion of children younger than 2 years with caregiver-reported

SUBMITTER: Sinharoy SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5561270 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature