Effect of a behaviour-change intervention on handwashing with soap in India (SuperAmma): a cluster-randomised trial

Background: Diarrhoea and respiratory infections are the two biggest causes of child death globally. Handwashing with soap could substantially reduce diarrhoea and respiratory infections, but prevalence of adequate handwashing is low. We tested whether a scalable village-level intervention based on...

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Main Authors: Dr. Adam Biran, PhD, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, PhD, Kiruba Sankar Varadharajan, MSc, Divya Rajaraman, PhD, Raja Kumar, MSc, Katie Greenland, MSc, Balaji Gopalan, BTech, Robert Aunger, PhD, Val Curtis, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-03-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X13701608