Safe Water Techniques in Kenya

University of California (UC), Berkeley

Status and phase: Unknown; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Consumer Willingness to Pay for POU Products; Consumer Preferences and Use of POU Products

Treatments: Behavioral: biases towards products

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT00531869

CPHS Protocol #2007-7-27

Details and patient eligibility

About

Consumer preferences for POU technologies vary across consumers and products, and largely determine their adoption and subsequent usage. This is a marketing study that asks which products consumers prefer and why, and what is their willingness to pay, as understanding this is crucial to attain their widespread adoption and usage.

Full description

Visit 400 households and distribute 1 of 3 different POU technologies on randomized basis for a two-month trial. Cycle each household through trials with all 3 technologies in random order such that at the end of 6 months all households have experienced 2-month trials with each technology.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At least partial reliance on turbid water supply

Exclusion criteria

• At least partial reliance on turbid water supply

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)