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. 2019 Sep 24;2019(9):CD011055. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011055.pub2

Cummings 2012 UGA.

Methods Case‐control study (unmatched)
Participants Cases: people aged > 10 years who met the UMOH's outbreak case definition admitted to a cholera treatment centre in Moroto during April–June 2010; and resided in 1/15 selected villages in Nadunget, n = 99, median age 26 years, 64.6% female.
Controls: people aged > 10 years who had not experienced any form of diarrhoea from April 2010 to the time of investigation, resided in 1/15 selected villages in Nadunget, n = 99, median age 33 years, 51.5% female.
Interventions Risk factor of interest:
  • not disposing of child faeces in latrine vs using latrine to dispose of faeces (unclear what the age of the children whose faeces were disposed, referred to as younger children in the HH).

Outcomes Cholera: acute watery diarrhoea in an area with laboratory‐confirmed cholera cases
Notes Location: rural Karamoja subregion, north‐east Uganda
Length of recruitment: 3 months (April–June 2010)
Publication status: journal
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk NA
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk NA
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk NA
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk NA
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk NA
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk NA
Other bias Unclear risk NA
Similarity of baseline outcome measurements Unclear risk NA
Similarity of baseline characteristics Unclear risk NA
Adequate allocation of intervention concealment during the study Unclear risk NA
Adequate protection against contamination Unclear risk NA
Confounders adequately adjusted for in analysis/design Unclear risk NA
Recruitment bias Unclear risk NA
Baseline imbalance Unclear risk NA
Loss of clusters Unclear risk NA
Incorrect analysis Unclear risk NA