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WASH for Everyone: Testing Alternative Approaches to Sanitation and Hygiene Behaviour Change in Chiradzulu, Malawi

NCT05808218 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2800

Last updated 2025-03-07

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Summary

This study aims to assess the impact of multiple community-based behaviour change approaches on sanitation and hygiene behaviours in rural Malawi. Three different sub-districts (Traditional Authorities) in Chiradzulu District will be selected, each receiving a different combination of community-based interventions or will serve as controls. Eligible communities, households, and individuals will be randomly selected in each Traditional Authority and sanitation and hygiene behaviours assessed through self-report and direct observation after 1 year of intervention.

Conditions

  • Behavior

Interventions

OTHER

Community-Led Total Sanitation

The community-led total sanitation intervention is implemented across an entire Traditional Authority and includes the following village-level activities: 1. Triggering: * Village transect walks and open defecation site mapping * Demonstrations of food contamination and medical expense calculations 2. Development of a Community-Action Plan and identification of "natural leaders" 3. Post-triggering: routine follow-up by selected natural leaders to track and monitor progress against the Community Action Plan In addition to the activities above, the WASH for Everyone team will: * Train a cadre of local masons on sanitation construction * Support the District Health office in the implementation of existing sanitation and hygiene promotion at village markets and other public spaces

OTHER

Care Groups

* Orientation and training of village-level Care Group members on CLTS, latrine construction, and hygiene promotion * Routine house-to-house follow-up of Care Group members to provide peer-to-peer counselling and support on sanitation and hygiene behaviours.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS) WASHTED Centre

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Strathclyde

    collaborator OTHER

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert Dreibelbis, PhD · London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-04-13
Primary Completion
2024-05-01
Completion
2024-05-01

Countries

  • Malawi

Study Locations

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