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Provision versus promotion to develop a handwashing station: the effect on desired handwashing behavior

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, May 2017
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Title
Provision versus promotion to develop a handwashing station: the effect on desired handwashing behavior
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BMC Public Health, May 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4316-6
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Debashish Biswas, Fosiul Alam Nizame, Tina Sanghvi, Sumitro Roy, Stephen P. Luby, Leanne E. Unicomb

Abstract

Diarrhea prevalence increases from around the time that complementary foods are introduced. Improving caregiver's hand hygiene during food preparation could reduce complementary food contamination and enteric pathogen transmission. Washing hands with soap is more common when water and soap are together at a convenient location. We conducted a three-month pilot intervention to evaluate two options for setting up handwashing stations: i) provide a handwashing station, or ii) help the family to make their own from available materials. Additionally, we assessed the feasibility of this intervention to be integrated with a child feeding program. We conducted the intervention among two groups; 40 households received a free of cost handwashing station and another 40 households were motivated to place their own soap/soapy-water and water vessel near the food preparation and child feeding area. Community health workers encouraged caregivers to wash hands with soap/soapy-water before food preparation and feeding a child. They either assisted study participants to install the study-provided handwashing station at the recommended place or encouraged caregivers to develop their own. Field researchers assessed placement and composition of handwashing stations and the feasibility of integrating handwashing and nutrition messages. By end of the trial, 39/40 households developed their own handwashing station, comprising a bucket, mug and bar soap/soapy-water of which 60% (6/10) households were observed with a functional and complete handwashing station set. Observed handwashing with soap was detected among 8/10 households from the study-provided handwashing station group and 5/10 among households who had made their own handwashing station. Sixty-seven of the 76 caregivers recalled integrated intervention messages on social and health benefits of infant and young child feeding correctly; and all recalled key handwashing with soap times, before food preparation and feeding a child. Encouraging households to develop their own handwashing station with soap and water to place at a food preparation/child feeding location is feasible over the short term. In the absence of large-scale provision of handwashing stations, caregivers can be encouraged to create and use their own. Integrating handwashing with soap into a nutrition intervention was feasible and acceptable and should be considered by policy makers.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 100 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 28%
Researcher 11 11%
Student > Bachelor 7 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 31 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 14%
Social Sciences 8 8%
Environmental Science 7 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 4%
Other 15 15%
Unknown 38 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 March 2018.
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#6,513,614
of 24,676,547 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#6,765
of 16,341 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#96,221
of 315,603 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#125
of 241 outputs
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