Understanding behavioural determinants for cholera prevention to design more effective health and WASH packages – Ghana case studies

This research project will focus on broadening the understanding of different behavioural factors that influence the uptake of cholera prevention and control practices in Ghana. This will inform the design of more effective integrated water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health interventions packages that can be sustainably replicated at household and community level in cholera hotspots across Africa.

The project will measure changes in key behavioural factors or drivers and preventive behaviour adopted at household and community level. A mediation analysis will reveal how the interventions changed the behavioural factors and how these changes altered the preventive practices.

The findings of this project will help develop guidelines on how to develop cholera-specific behaviour change interventions tailored to a local context population and promote a catalogue of cholera-specific interventions that have been field tested and demonstrated to be effective in promoting preventive behaviour.