Though disappointing, the findings increase knowledge surrounding water, sanitation and hygiene interventions and child health.
Impact of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions in India, Bolivia, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Kenya, Mexico, and the United States.
Research advocates the use of social cognition theories in designing food hygiene interventions, however very few studies have actually done so.
Insufficient use of behavioral theory to understand health care workers' (HCWs) hand hygiene compliance may result in suboptimal design of hand hygiene interventions and limit effectiveness.
We developed a comprehensive search strategy designed to identify all peer-reviewed articles, in any language, that presented water, sanitation, or hygiene interventions.
The aim of this systematic review was to determine the efficacy of patient hand hygiene interventions in reducing HCAIs and improving patient hand hygiene rates compared to usual care.
Duflo et al. (2012) describe the barriers to adoption of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions, especially in Africa and Asia.
They have also seen improvements with cognitive behavioral therapy and sleep hygiene interventions, like instituting regular sleep and wake times.
By monitoring our projects for years after implementation, we see just how life-changing our clean water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions are.
Studies have even shown that college students with sleep issues responded better to sleep hygiene interventions when lavender was added to the therapy.
Both reviews considered only hand hygiene interventions conducted in LMICs.
