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

• Main Authors: Dr. Adam Biran, PhD (Author), Wolf-Peter Schmidt, PhD (Author), Kiruba Sankar Varadharajan, MSc (Author), Divya Rajaraman, PhD (Author), Raja Kumar, MSc (Author), Katie Greenland, MSc (Author), Balaji Gopalan, BTech (Author), Robert Aunger, PhD (Author), Val Curtis, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...