Promoting hygienic weaning food handling practices through a community-based programme: intervention implementation and baseline characteristics for a cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Gambia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Contamination of weaning food leads to diarrhoea in children under 5 years. Public health interventions to improve practices in low-income and middle-income countries are rare and often not evaluated using a randomised method. We describe an intervention implementation and provide baseline data for such a trial.

Design

Clustered randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Rural Gambia.

Participants

15 villages/clusters each with 20 randomly selected mothers with children aged 6-24 months per arm.

Intervention

To develop the public health intervention, we used: (A) formative research findings to determine theoretically based critical control point corrective measures and motivational drives for behaviour change of mothers; (B) lessons from a community-

SUBMITTER: Manjang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6078275 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature