Soap on a Rope Trial

Syracuse University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hand Disinfection

Treatments: Behavioral: Soap on a rope hall pass intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03186768

SoapRopetrial

Details and patient eligibility

About

The soap on a rope behavioral trial is a school-randomized trial to determine if a disruptive cue (the soap on a rope hall pass) can influence hand washing behavior for students in Namwala District, Zambia.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students in study schools who use the latrine on the day of observation

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention arm

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention arm receives a training of trainers on the soap on a rope hall pass intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Soap on a rope hall pass intervention

Control arm

No Intervention group

Description:

Control arm delays the training of trainers on the soap on a rope hall pass intervention until endline hand washing data has been collected.