Table 1.

Randomised control trials from the Randomized Exposure Study of Pollution Indoors and Respiratory Effects (RESPIRE) study

First author of study, year	Brief name	Study design	Study country	N	Age of partici-pants (years)	Sex	Control group (Y or N)	Pollutant outcome	Health Outcome	Follow-up period (post stove installation)	Reported effect of stove use(positive effect (+); negative effect (−); no effect (/))
Diaz, 2008 [18]	RESPIRE: self-rated health among women in the RESPIRE trial	RCT (subsample)	Guatemala	169 (80 Ix; 89 control)	Adult	Female	Y	NA	Self-report of health	Approx. 18 months	+
Diaz, 2007 [19]	RESPIRE: eye discomfort, headache and back pain	RCT (subsample)	Guatemala	504 (259 Ix; 245 control)	Adult	Female	Y	e-CO	NA	12 – 18 months	+
Smith, 2010 [20]	RESPIRE : trial of woodfire chimney cook stoves	RCT	Guatemala	515 infants; 532 mothers	Infants (0–18 months); mothers (15–55 years)	Female & children	Y	CO	In separate papers	Every 3 months >until the children reached 18 months	+
Smith, 2011 [21]	RESPIRE : effect on childhood pneumonia	RCT	Guatemala	534 households (269 intervention; 265 control)	Infants (0–18 months); mothers (15–55 years)	Female & children	Y	CO	Childhood pneumonia	Every 3 months until the children reached 18 months	+
Smith - Sivertsen, 2009 [22]	RESPIRE : Effect on women’s respiratory symptoms and lung function	RCT	Guatemala	504 women	15-55 years	Female	Y	CO	Chronic respiratory symptoms and lung function	Every 3 months until the children reached 18 months	+
Thompson, 2011 [23]	RESPIRE : impact of reduced maternal exposure on new born birth weigh	RCT (Subgroup of RESPIRE)	Guatemala	174 infants (69 from Ix; 105 from control)	Infant s	Both	Y	CO	Birth weight	Until birth	+

CO Carbon Monoxide, e-CO exhaled CO, Ix intervention