An interventional study of Improved water supply in Cholera and Diarrhea, sponsored by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Completed at 1 site in Congo, The Democratic Republic of the. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-08-26.
Sponsored by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
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.
83 studies on the registry are indexed under Cholera; 16 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 4,556 is above the median of 262 across 72 interventional studies indexed under Cholera.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Current water supply access
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.
Other: Improved water supply
Admission rate to the Uvira Cholera Treatment Centre
Time frame: 36 months
Admission rate to the Uvira Cholera Treatment Centre of laboratory confirmed cholera cases
Time frame: 36 months
Plan to share: No
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