Coded Dependent Variables

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Dependent Variables (DVs)
26th June 2025

Pupils' health practices
Occurrence of diarrhea in children under 5 years old.
Child diarrhea.
Hand Hygiene Behavior (Knowledge, Attitudes, and Actions).
Diarrhoeal disease prevalence and malnutrition (stunting, wasting, underweight) among children under 5.
Diarrhoea and acute respiratory infection (ARI) among children under 5.
Blood lead analysis/levels in children.
Children's independent handwashing behaviour after toilet use (measured by soap use to toilet event ratio) and independent toothbrushing behaviour at home (measured by dental plaque accumulation).
Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections (Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and hookworm) in young children.
Child diarrhoea (All diarrhoea, Acute watery diarrhoea, Acute dysentery, Diarrhoeal duration).
Antimalarial activity of M5717 (specifically, parasite reduction ratio, time to 50% parasite reduction, and parasite clearance half-life).
Pupil diarrhoea (specifically, prevalence of diarrhoea in school-aged children).
Health status of under-five children (specifically, diarrhoeal disease and malnutrition).
Diarrhoeal infections in children, and Knowledge, Awareness, Practices (KAP) related to WaSH.
Infectious disease risk.
For the first abstract: Antimalarial activity of M5717.
Child diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection, soil-transmitted helminth infection, and nutritional status.
Malnutrition, dehydration, health literacy (HL), and handwashing (HW).
Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) and schistosome (SCH) infections, and nutritional status (hemoglobin, height-for-age z-score (HAZ), weight-for-age z-score (WAZ), and body mass index-for-age z-score (BAZ)).
Child health (specifically, self-reported diarrhea incidence for under-five children in the two weeks before the survey).
Children's handwashing behavior and incidence of acute infectious diseases in childcare institutions. Parents' handwashing behavior.
Child growth, measured by height-for-age (HAZ), weight-for-age (WAZ), and weight-for-height (WHZ) z-scores.
Diarrhea incidence among under-five children.
Handwashing practice
Clean and Healthy Living Behavior (PHBS)
Child health and development, stunting, anaemia.
Child Health Outcomes
Undernutrition (e.g., stunting), and governance related to WASH.
Childhood Diarrhea
Child development
Acute diarrhea
Diarrhoea prevalence among children under five years
Diarrhoea prevalence among children under five years
Child health outcomes such as absenteeism, infections, knowledge, attitudes, and practices, and adoption of point-of-use water treatment33. Specifically: absenteeism, diarrhea, and malnutrition in children 4, and acute respiratory infections5.
"• Pupil diarrhea
• Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection
• Respiratory infection
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Child Mortality
"• Childhood stunting
• Childhood diarrhea
"
Health literacy, handwashing knowledge and practices, and nutrition status (weight-for-age, height-for-age, weight-for-height Z-scores) of school-aged children.
Diarrhea prevalence in children younger than 5 years.
Acute respiratory infection (ARI) symptoms (caregiver-reported cough or difficulty breathing, including panting or wheezing) in children younger than 3 years33. Secondary outcomes included difficulty breathing, ARI symptoms presenting with fever, and enumerator-observed runny nose4.
Diarrhea disease prevalence
Childhood Diarrhoea 3
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Diarrheal diseases in children aged 0-59 months.
Child diarrhea.
Diarrhoea prevalence among children under five years.
Acute diarrhea among children under 5 years of age.
Prevalence of diarrhea among under-five children.
Diarrhea among under-five children.
Pupil diarrhea and soil-transmitted helminth infection.
Childhood nutritional status: height-for-age (HAZ), weight-for-height (WHZ), and weight-for-age (WAZ) z-scores.
Child growth, specifically "risk of stunting and reversal of stunting."
Children's health and nutritional status (Height-for-age Z-score, weight-for-age Z-score, weight-for-height Z-score, BMI-for-age Z-score, self-reported diarrhoeal episodes, parasitic infections).
Stunted child growth (stunting).
Anemia (defined as an altitude-adjusted Hb concentration < 110 g/L).
Undernutrition (specifically child growth/stunting).
Stunting (chronic undernutrition) among under-five children.
Malnutrition (categorized into wasting, stunting, and underweight).
Child stunting (identified using World Health Organization criteria).
Childhood diarrheal disease (prevalence of diarrheal disease among under-five children).
Childhood diarrhoea (presence/absence of diarrhoea in under-five children in the last 2 weeks).
Environmental Enteropathy Markers (e.g., Lactulose:Mannitol (L:M) ratio, myeloperoxidase (MPO), neopterin (NEO), alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT)).
Under-five mortality.
The outcome variable was presence of acute diarrhea (yes/no) in children under age five in the two weeks prior to the survey. 4
The primary outcomes of the study were the occurrence of diarrheal disease within the last week of the survey and indicators of nutritional status (underweight, stunting, and wasting).
Childhood Diarrhoea
Decline in diarrhea and stunting 3
Childhood intestinal parasitic infections
Diarrhea among under-five children
Child stunting and anaemia
Contamination of weaning food (measured by faecal coliforms (FC), faecal streptococci (FS), and Clostridium perfringens (CP)).
Complementary feeding practices (and implicitly, linear growth faltering)
Acute diarrhea among children under 5 years of age.
Disease and nutritional status of under-five children
Child malnutrition (stunting, wasting, and overweight)
Diarrhea risk in children under age five
Acute diarrhea among children under five
Common infections among under-five children (e.g., diarrheal diseases, acute respiratory infections, skin infections)
Nutritional status of under-five children (assessed by weight, height, and hemoglobin level)
Diarrhea among under-five children
Diarrhoeal disease among under-five children
Morbidity status, specifically any acute illnesses (self-reported)
Child linear growth, measured as length-for-age z-scores (LAZ)
Child length, specifically length-for-age z-scores (LAZ)
Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WaSH) practices for under-five children
Children's nutritional status (undernutrition), intestinal parasitic infections, and diarrhoea.
Height-for-age (HAZ), weight-for-height (WHZ) and weight-for-age (WAZ) z-scores
Childhood diarrhea (diarrhea status of children)
Childhood diarrhea in the past 2 weeks.
Childhood stunting
Child development outcomes: gross motor milestone achievement, communication, gross motor, personal social, and combined scores. 3333
Diarrhoea disease epidemiology and microbial quality of water
Stunting (chronic malnutrition)
Infection-related absence (absenteeism), and knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to hand washing.
Students' health and hygiene conditions.
Policy implementation (fidelity and challenges of environmental health policy implementation in health care facilities).