The effect of SODIS water treatment intervention at the household level in reducing diarrheal incidence among children under 5 years of age: a cluster randomized controlled trial in Dabat district, northwest Ethiopia

Table 6 Effect of the Solar Disinfection (SODIS) intervention within different age groups of children 6 to 59 months of age, Dabat district, northwest Ethiopia, 10 January to 7 July 2016

Age category	Control groups (n = 394)			Intervention group (n = 384)			DD reduction (%)	p value
Age category	Number of DD^a episodes	Person-week observations	DD incidence (%)	Number of DD episodes	Person-week observations	DD incide-nce (%)	DD reduction (%)	p value
6–23 months	308	1277	24.1	183	1256	14.6	39	< 0.001
24–36 months	205	1131	18.1	102	1052	9.7	46	< 0.001
37–48 months	124	1183	10.5	60	1248	4.8	54	< 0.001
49–59months	83	1125	7.4	33	974	3.4	54	< 0.001
All < 60 months	720	4716	15.3	378	4530	8.3	46	< 0.001

^aDiarrheal disease. The incidence of diarrhea was computed as the number of new episodes divided by the total number of person-week observations

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