The Lancet. Global health
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The Lancet. Global health · Mar 2014
Randomized Controlled TrialEffect of a behaviour-change intervention on handwashing with soap in India (SuperAmma): a cluster-randomised trial.
Diarrhoea and respiratory infections are the two biggest causes of child death globally. Handwashing with soap could substantially reduce diarrhoea and respiratory infections, but prevalence of adequate handwashing is low. We tested whether a scalable village-level intervention based on emotional drivers of behaviour, rather than knowledge, could improve handwashing behaviour in rural India. ⋯ Wellcome Trust, SHARE.