Implementing effective hygiene promotion: Lessons from the process evaluation of an intervention to promote handwashing with soap in rural India

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rajaraman, Divya ^a   Varadharajan, Kiruba Sankar ^a   Greenland, Katie ^b   Curtis, Val ^b   Kumar, Raja ^a   Schmidt, Wolf Peter ^b   Aunger, Robert ^b   Biran, Adam ^b  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community based intervention; Handwashing with soap; Hygiene promotion; Process evaluation

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; EXPOSURE; HAND WASHING; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; LEADERSHIP; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; SCALE UP; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL NORM; ADULT; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION;

SOAP;

ADULT; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RURAL POPULATION; SOAPS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84964315426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1179     Document Type: Article

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