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Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water

NCT01082107 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 800

Last updated 2010-03-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

SODISWATER is a European Union funded health impact assessment study investigating the effect of sunlight to inactivate microbial pathogens in drinking water. This study was done by observing whether children younger than 5 years old who drink solar disinfected water were healthier than those who did not. Health was measured by how often the children had diarrhoea.

Participants were given plastic bottles to place in the sun, water samples were then collected from these plastic bottles to be analyzed. They were also requested to fill in diarrhea diaries.

TESTABLE RESEARCH HYPOTHESES:

Health Impact Assessment: Children who use solar disinfected water will have:

(a) lower morbidity due to non-bloody diarrhoea and bloody diarrhoea (c) increased growth rates (d) lower mortality (e) increased family productivity (f) decreased care-giver burden (g) increased school attendance

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Solar disinfection in transparent containers (plastic bottles)

Participants in the study drink solar disinfected (SODIS) water. Solar disinfected water is water (\> 3 L) that has been placed in direct sunlight for 6 hours. Participants are expected to drink SODIS treated water for the duration of the study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland

    collaborator OTHER

  • European Union

    collaborator OTHER

  • Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Kevin G McGuigan, PhD · Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Max Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-10-31
Completion
2009-08-31

Countries

  • South Africa

Study Locations

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