Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, California; The Carter Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Departments of Ophthalmology and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California; The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia; Institute for Global Health, University of California, San Francisco, California.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013 Oct;89(4):717-20. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0299. Epub 2013 Sep 3.
Latrine use has been promoted as a component of an integrated strategy for trachoma control. As part of a randomized trial in Ethiopia, 12 communities received a mass azithromycin distribution followed by a latrine promotion intervention. A random sample of children ages 0-9 years in each community was monitored longitudinally for ocular chlamydia. After latrine construction ended, those communities with a higher proportion of households using latrines were more likely to experience a reduction in the prevalence of ocular chlamydia. Specifically, for each 10% increase in latrine use, there was a 2.0% decrease (95% confidence interval = 0.2-3.9% decrease) in the community prevalence of ocular chlamydia over the subsequent year (P = 0.04).
厕所的使用已被推广为沙眼综合防治策略的一个组成部分。在埃塞俄比亚的一项随机试验中,12 个社区接受了大规模阿奇霉素分发,随后开展了厕所推广干预。每个社区的 0-9 岁儿童随机样本进行了沙眼衣原体的纵向监测。在厕所建造结束后,那些有更高比例家庭使用厕所的社区更有可能降低眼部衣原体的患病率。具体来说,在接下来的一年里,每增加 10%的厕所使用率,社区中眼部沙眼衣原体的患病率就会降低 2.0%(95%置信区间为 0.2-3.9%的降低)(P = 0.04)。