WASH Benefits Bangladesh trial: management structure for achieving high coverage in an efficacy trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) efficacy trials deliver interventions to the target population under optimal conditions to estimate their effects on outcomes of interest, to inform subsequent selection for inclusion in routine programs. A systematic and intensive approach to intervention delivery is required to achieve the high-level uptake necessary to measure efficacy. We describe the intervention delivery system adopted in the WASH Benefits Bangladesh study, as part of a three-paper series on WASH Benefits Intervention Delivery and Performance.

Methods

Community Health Workers (CHWs) delivered individual and combined WASH and nutrition interventions to 4169 enrolled households in geographically matched clusters. Households were provided with free enabling

SUBMITTER: Unicomb L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6034218 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature