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. 2024 Aug 27;24:2327. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-19272-5

Table 3.

Effect of intervention on JMP-defined safe child feces disposal, caregiver safe disposal, and child latrine use

Endline Prevalence ratio†
Intervention Control Unadjusted Fully adjusted§
N n (%) N n (%) PR 95% CI P value PR 95% CI P value
JMP-defined safe child feces disposal*
All children aged < 6 years+ 840 653 (77.7%) 785 517 (65.9%) 1.21 1.05–1.39 0.009 1.16 1.04–1.29 0.010
Male children aged < 6 years 437 336 (76.9%) 405 271 (66.9%) 1.18 1.01–1.39 0.042 1.13 1.00–1.28 0.059
Female children aged < 6 years 403 317 (78.7%) 380 246 (64.7%) 1.22 1.05–1.41 0.008 1.17 1.04–1.32 0.010
Per-protocol 576 476 (82.6%) 785 517 (65.9%) 1.28 1.11–1.48 0.001 1.23 1.09–1.38 0.001
Children aged < 3 years 428 289 (67.5%) 405 189 (46.7%) 1.51 1.22–1.88 < 0.001 1.42 1.21–1.67 < 0.001
Caregiver safe disposal
All children aged < 6 years 840 156 (18.6%) 785 107 (13.6%) 1.47 1.09–1.98 0.012 1.46 1.12–1.92 0.006
Male children aged < 6 years 437 80 (18.3%) 405 58 (14.3%) 1.37 0.93–2.03 0.109 1.40 0.96–2.03 0.079
Female children aged < 6 years 403 76 (18.9%) 380 49 (12.9%) 1.47 1.06–2.06 0.023 1.43 1.06–1.92 0.018
Per-protocol 576 107 (18.6%) 785 107 (13.6%) 1.45 1.05–2.00 0.022 1.44 1.07–1.93 0.015
Children aged < 3 years 428 148 (34.6%) 405 104 (25.7%) 1.45 1.09–1.95 0.012 1.44 1.11–1.86 0.005
Child latrine use
All children aged < 6 years 842 497 (59.0%) 786 410 (52.2%) 1.12 0.96–1.30 0.158 1.06 0.95–1.18 0.332
Male children aged < 6 years 439 256 (58.3%) 406 213 (52.5%) 1.10 0.93–1.32 0.274 1.07 0.94–1.21 0.301
Female children aged < 6 years 403 241 (59.8%) 380 197 (51.8%) 1.13 0.96–1.33 0.144 1.08 0.94–1.24 0.284
Per-protocol 577 369 (64.0%) 786 410 (52.2%) 1.22 1.05–1.41 0.009 1.18 1.04–1.33 0.010
Children aged < 3 years 429 141 (32.9%) 406 85 (20.9%) 1.52 1.11–2.08 0.009 1.41 1.08–1.83 0.012

Bolded P values represent a significant result (significance P < 0.05)

*Safe child feces disposal, as defined by JMP, includes both latrine use by the child and safe disposal of child feces into a latrine by the caregiver. +Children were < 5 years old at the start of intervention delivery (December 2021) but by the time of endline data collection, approximately four to six months later, some children reached 5 years old. †Models were log-binomial and used generalized estimating equations (GEE) with robust standard errors to account for clustering. However, all of the fully adjusted models for JMP-defined safe disposal and caregiver safe disposal, as well as the fully adjusted per-protocol model for child latrine use, did not converge. In this case, a Poisson model was used rather than log-binomial. §Fully adjusted models were adjusted for two village-level variables: geo-demo group (the variable used for stratified randomization) and baseline prevalence of the outcome