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. 2020 Jun 8;9:64. doi: 10.1186/s40249-020-00680-9

Operational definition of terms

Control arm: Group of clusters provided with no household water treating product and allowed to continue with their customary practices.

Effect: The influence of treating drinking water with a water treatment product on the incidence of diarrhea in under-five children.

Household water treatment with chlorine: Treatment of drinking water using bleach (sodium hypochlorite) at the household level.

Improved drinking water: Drinking water obtained from a pipe, public tap, borehole, protected spring, protected dug well, or rainwater.

Intervention arm: Group of clusters provided with point-of-use water treatment product to treat their drinking water.

Point-of-use water treatment: Treatment of drinking water for household use at the point-of-use.