Impact Evaluation of Urban Water Supply Improvements on Cholera and Other Diarrhoeal Diseases in Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diarrhea; Cholera

Treatments: Other: Improved water supply

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02928341

8913

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to evaluate the impact of a large-scale urban water supply improvement intervention on cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases. The study uses a step wedge cluster randomised controlled trial (SWcRCT) to measure the effect of the intervention on cholera centre admission rates and confirmed cholera cases. A nested cohort study will examine changes in water-related practices following the intervention.

Enrollment: 4,556 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Uvira resident admitted to the Uvira Cholera Treatment Centre in Uvira

Exclusion criteria

• Any patients admitted during the period of intervention implementation in each cluster

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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4,556 participants in 2 patient groups

No intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Current water supply access

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Received water supply improvement intervention designed to improve access to tap water, consisting of community managed public taps, improved tap water distribution network, refurbished tap connections and promotion of new household tap connections.

Treatment:

Other: Improved water supply