Safe Start Trial - Childhood hygiene intervention on enteric infections and growth faltering in low-income settlements of Kisumu, Kenya Designing and testing a novel child hygiene intervention in collaboration with community members, the health extension system and local government

Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity (SHARE) consortium
SHARE

Led by the Great Lakes University, Kisumu, this study will design, implement and evaluate the impact of a novel early childhood hygiene intervention targeting caregivers of children at three months of age on enteric infections and growth faltering in low-income settlements of Kisumu, Kenya.

Mission

Aim: To address this challenge by designing and testing a novel child hygiene intervention in collaboration with community members, the health extension system and local government. The intervention will target children’s caregivers with the aim of changing key hygiene behaviours. Objectives: • Design and implement a novel child hygiene intervention targeting caregivers of children at three months of age, and delivered by Community Health Volunteers; • Measure the effect of the intervention on observed and reported household behaviours; • Measure the effect of the intervention on faecal contamination in the child environment (food, drinking water and fomites) and on the presence of flies; • Evaluate the effect of the intervention on specific enteric infections and growth faltering among children.

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Jane Mumma
jnmumma@gmail.com

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WASH and nutritionBehaviour changeHealth and hygieneSpecific to one or several countriesUK governmentUniversity, education or research institution

Related Countries

Kenya