A community randomised controlled trial evaluating a home-based environmental intervention package of improved stoves, solar water disinfection and kitchen sinks in rural Peru: Rationale, trial design and baseline findings

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 864-873

  Hartinger, S M ^a,b,c   Lanata, C F ^c,d   Hattendorf, J ^a,b   Gil, A I ^c   Verastegui, H ^c   Ochoa, T ^e   Mausezahl D ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NUTRICIONAL   (Peru)

^d UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA DE CIENCIAS APLICADAS   (Peru)

^e INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

Author keywords

Acute lower respiratory infections; Child health; Community randomised trial; Diarrhoea; Hand washing; Hygiene

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; AMBIENT AIR; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; COMMUNITY TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FECES; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND WASHING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOME BASED INTERVENTION PACKAGE; HOME CARE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; KITCHEN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERU; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLAR DRINKING WATER DISINFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; PERU; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SUNLIGHT; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 80052694638     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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