Assessing the Health Impact of a Combined Water and Sanitation Intervention in Rural Odisha, India

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Diarrhea; Soil-transmitted Helminth Infection; Stunting; Enteric Infection

Treatments: Behavioral: Improved water supply and sanitation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02441699

9071

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a matched-cohort study designed to assess the health impact of a rural demand-driven water and sanitation intervention that provides piped treated water and household level pour-flush latrines and bathing rooms, as implemented by Gram Vikas.

Full description

We will undertake a matched-cohort study among 84 villages in Ganjam district, Orissa, India to assess the health impact of a program that provides improved water supplies and sanitation to rural villages.

Enrollment: 2,940 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Households in participating villages will be eligible to participate in the study if they have at least one child under 5 years.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

2,940 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Description:

Rural villages in which Gram Vikas has fully implemented its water supply and sanitation (Mantra) intervention. Intervention villages must: 1) be within 3 hours travel to the study office in Brahmapur, 2) have started the intervention by January 2003, and 3) have completed the intervention by January 2013.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Improved water supply and sanitation

Control group

Description:

Rural villages that have been matched with intervention villages on demographics and other criteria. The sampling frame for control villages is limited to those: 1) within 3 hours travel to the study office in Brahmapur, and 2) within Gram Panchayats which do not include an intervention village and are not adjacent to an intervention village, to minimize spillover effects. In addition, both intervention and control villages must appear in the Government of India Census in 2001.