Impact of a sanitation intervention on quality of life and mental well-being in low-income urban neighbourhoods of Maputo, Mozambique: an observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Toilet users often report valuing outcomes such as privacy and safety more highly than reduced disease, but effects of urban sanitation interventions on such outcomes have never been assessed quantitatively. In this study, we evaluate the impact of a shared sanitation intervention on quality of life (QoL) and mental well-being.

Design

We surveyed individuals living in intervention and control clusters of a recent non-randomised controlled trial, and used generalised linear mixed regression models to make an observational comparison of outcomes between arms.

Setting

Low-income unsewered areas of Maputo City, Mozambique.

Participants

We interviewed 424 participants, 222 from the prior trial's intervention group and 202 from the control group.

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SUBMITTER: Ross I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9558791 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature