Background
Method
Description of the intervention
Indicators tracked
Domains | Indicators |
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Drinking water safety | % of households with children under five that practiced one or more home-based water treatment methods |
Sanitation | % of households with children under five using hygienic latrine facilities |
Hygiene | % of children whose personal hygiene condition is clean |
% of mothers or care givers whose hand washing practice is good | |
Parasitic infections | % of under five children who had one or more intestinal parasitic infections |
Statistical analysis
Role of the funding source
Results
Socio-demographic characteristics of study participants
Socio-demographic variables | Baseline survey | Endline survey |
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n (%) | n (%) | |
Sex of children | ||
Male | 106 (47.1) | 158 (52.3) |
Female | 119 (52.9) | 144 (47.7) |
Age of children | ||
6–24 | 59 (26.2) | 96 (31.8) |
> 24 | 166 (73.8) | 206 (68.2) |
Maternal education | ||
No formal education | 180 (80.0) | 248 (82.1) |
Have formal education | 45 (20.0) | 54 (17.9) |
WASH conditions
WASH variables | Baseline | Endline | % point change | p value |
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n (%) | n (%) | |||
Percentage of children whose personal hygiene condition is clean | 3 (1.3) | 104 (34.4) | 33.1 | < 0.05* |
Percentage of mothers or caregivers whose hand washing practice is good | 55 (24.4) | 206 (68.2) | 43.8 | < 0.001 |
Percentage of households practiced home-based water treatment | 17 (7.6) | 142 (47.0) | 39.4 | < 0.001 |
Percentage of households used sanitary latrine | 72 (32.0) | 148 (49.0) | 17.0 | < 0.05 |
Home-based water treatment methods | Baseline (n = 225) | Endline (n = 302) |
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n (%) | n (%) | |
Water guard (chlorine solution) | 13 (5.8) | 142 (47.0) |
Solar disinfection | 1 (0.4) | – |
Boiling | 2 (0.9) | – |
Cloth sieve filtration | 1 (0.4) | – |
No treatment methods used | 208 (92.4) | 160 (53.0) |
Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections
Intestinal parasitic infections | Baseline (n = 225) | Endline (n = 202) | PR (95% CI) |
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n (%) | n (%) | ||
Percentage of under five children who had at least one intestinal parasitic infection | 58 (25.8) | 48 (23.8) | 0.92 (0.62, 1.38) |