Software Interventions for Improving Hand Washing and Sanitation in Rural Tanzania: an Impact Evaluation
NCT ID: NCT03709368
Last Updated: 2022-03-09
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
1500 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2018-04-23
2021-05-31
Brief Summary
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OBJECTIVES. The primary objective is to determine the effectiveness of a contextualized and non-contextualized add-on intervention for improving hand washing (HW) behavior. Secondary objectives include the impact on latrine use, health, coverage of HW and latrine infrastructure, quality of life, and cost-effectiveness.
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Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
TRIPLE
Study Groups
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RANAS
Hardware CLTS+PHAST RANAS (contextualized)
Hardware
Community sessions will be provided to each of the sub-villages (n=27) teaching participants how to build a tippy tap, how to build an improved latrine, and how to make liquid soap. In addition, an existing water gravity flow scheme will be rehabilitated and extended, 350 tippy taps and 350 pans for pour flush latrines will be distributed, and sanitation blocks will be built in four schools. Within these schools, SWASH school hygiene clubs will be organized.
CLTS
CLTS sanitation and HW sessions will be given. A first session will focus on sanitation, covering 7 exercises: 1) sanitation or social map, 2) transect walk, 3) shit calculation, 4) medical expenses, 5) shit flow diagram, and 6) water/shit demo, 7) community declaration. A second session will focus on HW, involving 10 exercises: 1) anal cleansing materials, 2) shit and shake, 3) cassava/egg demonstration, 4) charcoal smearing, 5) smelly hands, 6) feces on baby nappies, 7) scratch \& smell, 8) wall contamination, 9) food sharing, 10) dirt under fingernails. These sessions will take approximately 3-5 hours each. Follow-up community meetings and household visits will take place to monitor improvement.
PHAST
PHAST sessions are based on the 'PHAST step-by-step guide: A participatory approach for the control of diarrhoeal disease' of the World Health Organization. Considering the overlap with some CLTS activities, only a selection of the full guideline will be enrolled, namely: 1) Health problems in our community, 2) Good and bad hygiene behaviors, 3) Investigating community practices, 4) How diseases spread, 5) Blocking the spread of disease, 6) Selecting the barriers, 7) Choosing sanitation improvements, and 8) Choosing improved hygiene behaviors. These 8 activities will be enrolled in approximately 40 community groups. Each activity will take between 30 minutes - 2 hours to complete.
RANAS
Nine household visits of 20-40 min each will be offered at a frequency of one visit every two months. The content of these add-on visits is based on the RANAS manual: 'Systematic Behavior Change in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene - A practical guide to using the RANAS approach' (www.ranasmosler.com). First, baseline data is gathered through a questionnaire to better understand the context that is at play. Next, this data is analyzed in a do'er non-do'er analysis. Only those behavioral factors that are significantly different between do'ers and non-do'ers will be included in the intervention, as these are, at least theoretically, considered to be decisive for HW and latrine use behavior in the current setting.
Mini-RANAS
Hardware CLTS+PHAST mini-RANAS (norms)
Hardware
Community sessions will be provided to each of the sub-villages (n=27) teaching participants how to build a tippy tap, how to build an improved latrine, and how to make liquid soap. In addition, an existing water gravity flow scheme will be rehabilitated and extended, 350 tippy taps and 350 pans for pour flush latrines will be distributed, and sanitation blocks will be built in four schools. Within these schools, SWASH school hygiene clubs will be organized.
CLTS
CLTS sanitation and HW sessions will be given. A first session will focus on sanitation, covering 7 exercises: 1) sanitation or social map, 2) transect walk, 3) shit calculation, 4) medical expenses, 5) shit flow diagram, and 6) water/shit demo, 7) community declaration. A second session will focus on HW, involving 10 exercises: 1) anal cleansing materials, 2) shit and shake, 3) cassava/egg demonstration, 4) charcoal smearing, 5) smelly hands, 6) feces on baby nappies, 7) scratch \& smell, 8) wall contamination, 9) food sharing, 10) dirt under fingernails. These sessions will take approximately 3-5 hours each. Follow-up community meetings and household visits will take place to monitor improvement.
PHAST
PHAST sessions are based on the 'PHAST step-by-step guide: A participatory approach for the control of diarrhoeal disease' of the World Health Organization. Considering the overlap with some CLTS activities, only a selection of the full guideline will be enrolled, namely: 1) Health problems in our community, 2) Good and bad hygiene behaviors, 3) Investigating community practices, 4) How diseases spread, 5) Blocking the spread of disease, 6) Selecting the barriers, 7) Choosing sanitation improvements, and 8) Choosing improved hygiene behaviors. These 8 activities will be enrolled in approximately 40 community groups. Each activity will take between 30 minutes - 2 hours to complete.
mini-RANAS
Nine household visits of 20-40 min each will be offered at a frequency of one visit every two months. The content of the mini-RANAS add-on intervention is based on the 'Norm Behavior Change Techniques' from the RANAS manual 'Systematic Behavior Change in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene - A practical guide to using the RANAS approach' (www.ranasmosler.com). During the mini-RANAS household visits, emphasis will be put on norms and volunteers will encourage participants to become a role model by improving HW and sanitation infrastructure and behavior.
Control
Hardware CLTS+PHAST Placebo
Hardware
Community sessions will be provided to each of the sub-villages (n=27) teaching participants how to build a tippy tap, how to build an improved latrine, and how to make liquid soap. In addition, an existing water gravity flow scheme will be rehabilitated and extended, 350 tippy taps and 350 pans for pour flush latrines will be distributed, and sanitation blocks will be built in four schools. Within these schools, SWASH school hygiene clubs will be organized.
CLTS
CLTS sanitation and HW sessions will be given. A first session will focus on sanitation, covering 7 exercises: 1) sanitation or social map, 2) transect walk, 3) shit calculation, 4) medical expenses, 5) shit flow diagram, and 6) water/shit demo, 7) community declaration. A second session will focus on HW, involving 10 exercises: 1) anal cleansing materials, 2) shit and shake, 3) cassava/egg demonstration, 4) charcoal smearing, 5) smelly hands, 6) feces on baby nappies, 7) scratch \& smell, 8) wall contamination, 9) food sharing, 10) dirt under fingernails. These sessions will take approximately 3-5 hours each. Follow-up community meetings and household visits will take place to monitor improvement.
PHAST
PHAST sessions are based on the 'PHAST step-by-step guide: A participatory approach for the control of diarrhoeal disease' of the World Health Organization. Considering the overlap with some CLTS activities, only a selection of the full guideline will be enrolled, namely: 1) Health problems in our community, 2) Good and bad hygiene behaviors, 3) Investigating community practices, 4) How diseases spread, 5) Blocking the spread of disease, 6) Selecting the barriers, 7) Choosing sanitation improvements, and 8) Choosing improved hygiene behaviors. These 8 activities will be enrolled in approximately 40 community groups. Each activity will take between 30 minutes - 2 hours to complete.
Placebo poster
One household visit will be offered. During this visit, a placebo poster will be distributed focusing on first aid. The topics to be discussed are burns, cuts and grazes. The main goal of this household visit is to avoid jealousy among the control cohort.
Interventions
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Hardware
Community sessions will be provided to each of the sub-villages (n=27) teaching participants how to build a tippy tap, how to build an improved latrine, and how to make liquid soap. In addition, an existing water gravity flow scheme will be rehabilitated and extended, 350 tippy taps and 350 pans for pour flush latrines will be distributed, and sanitation blocks will be built in four schools. Within these schools, SWASH school hygiene clubs will be organized.
CLTS
CLTS sanitation and HW sessions will be given. A first session will focus on sanitation, covering 7 exercises: 1) sanitation or social map, 2) transect walk, 3) shit calculation, 4) medical expenses, 5) shit flow diagram, and 6) water/shit demo, 7) community declaration. A second session will focus on HW, involving 10 exercises: 1) anal cleansing materials, 2) shit and shake, 3) cassava/egg demonstration, 4) charcoal smearing, 5) smelly hands, 6) feces on baby nappies, 7) scratch \& smell, 8) wall contamination, 9) food sharing, 10) dirt under fingernails. These sessions will take approximately 3-5 hours each. Follow-up community meetings and household visits will take place to monitor improvement.
PHAST
PHAST sessions are based on the 'PHAST step-by-step guide: A participatory approach for the control of diarrhoeal disease' of the World Health Organization. Considering the overlap with some CLTS activities, only a selection of the full guideline will be enrolled, namely: 1) Health problems in our community, 2) Good and bad hygiene behaviors, 3) Investigating community practices, 4) How diseases spread, 5) Blocking the spread of disease, 6) Selecting the barriers, 7) Choosing sanitation improvements, and 8) Choosing improved hygiene behaviors. These 8 activities will be enrolled in approximately 40 community groups. Each activity will take between 30 minutes - 2 hours to complete.
RANAS
Nine household visits of 20-40 min each will be offered at a frequency of one visit every two months. The content of these add-on visits is based on the RANAS manual: 'Systematic Behavior Change in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene - A practical guide to using the RANAS approach' (www.ranasmosler.com). First, baseline data is gathered through a questionnaire to better understand the context that is at play. Next, this data is analyzed in a do'er non-do'er analysis. Only those behavioral factors that are significantly different between do'ers and non-do'ers will be included in the intervention, as these are, at least theoretically, considered to be decisive for HW and latrine use behavior in the current setting.
mini-RANAS
Nine household visits of 20-40 min each will be offered at a frequency of one visit every two months. The content of the mini-RANAS add-on intervention is based on the 'Norm Behavior Change Techniques' from the RANAS manual 'Systematic Behavior Change in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene - A practical guide to using the RANAS approach' (www.ranasmosler.com). During the mini-RANAS household visits, emphasis will be put on norms and volunteers will encourage participants to become a role model by improving HW and sanitation infrastructure and behavior.
Placebo poster
One household visit will be offered. During this visit, a placebo poster will be distributed focusing on first aid. The topics to be discussed are burns, cuts and grazes. The main goal of this household visit is to avoid jealousy among the control cohort.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Tanzania Red Cross Society
UNKNOWN
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
OTHER
Centre for Evidence-Based Practice, Belgium
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Locations
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Tanzania Red Cross Society
Kigoma, , Tanzania
Countries
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References
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Dockx K, Van Remoortel H, De Buck E, Schelstraete C, Vanderheyden A, Lievens T, Kinyagu JT, Mamuya S, Vandekerckhove P. Effect of Contextualized Versus Non-Contextualized Interventions for Improving Hand Washing, Sanitation, and Health in Rural Tanzania: Study Design of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Jul 15;16(14):2529. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16142529.
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Related Info
Other Identifiers
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TAN-001
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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