WASH Benefits Child Development Follow up

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

4932 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-09-24

Study Completion Date

2022-06-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to determine if the effects of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition interventions in early childhood on child development and maternal mental health persist into middle childhood. This study is a follow-up assessment of the children and mothers enrolled in the WASH-Benefits Bangladesh study.

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Detailed Description

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Globally, millions of children experience delays in physical health and cognitive development, due to their exposures to poverty and related issues. In low-and middle-income countries, children experience a dis-proportionally high burden of exposure to poverty and related risk factors for delayed development including of poor health and nutrition, inadequate responsive care giving, and a lack of opportunities for early learning. Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions have the potential to positively affect the developmental trajectories of children by reducing enteric pathogen infection, improving child health, and altering parental care practices. A recent cluster-randomized controlled trial (cRCT) in Bangladesh (WASH-Benefits, or WASH-B, Clinical Trials.gov Identifier: NCT01590095), found that improvements in WASH or nutrition supported by intensive interpersonal communication, when delivered either individually or in combination, contributed to improvements in child development outcomes at 1 and 2 years of age, and mothers in all intervention groups reported lower depressive symptoms than mothers in the control households.

This follow-up study, funded by the Bill \& Melinda Gates foundation, includes assessments of the children and caregivers originally enrolled in the WASH Benefits intervention 5 years following intervention completion, when the children are 5-8 year of age. The original WASH Benefits intervention enrolled pregnant women between May 31, 2012, and July 7, 2013. The goal of this follow-up study is to examine whether the improvements in child development and maternal mental health are sustained when the children are in middle childhood. Our guiding hypothesis is that interventions that showed early impact will continue to improve child and maternal outcomes at this follow-up time period. Investigators will attempt to collect follow-up data from every household originally randomized to one of the 7 arms in the WASH Benefits trial.

Conditions

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Child Development Maternal Depression

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Investigators

The outcome assessment team is separate from the implementation team, however due to the nature of the interventions there may be intervention contents visible during the assessment. Data analysis will be masked to randomization status of clusters.

Study Groups

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