Green banana-supplemented diet in the home management of acute and prolonged diarrhoea in children: a community-based trial in rural Bangladesh.

摘要: SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: To determine the effectiveness of green banana in home management acute ( /= 7 days) diarrhoea at community level. METHODS: A cluster randomized field trial was conducted among 2968 Bangladeshi rural children 6-36 months old. Wards (villages) were randomly assigned to either a standard care group or plus where mothers instructed add cooked diets diarrhoeal children. Through village-based surveillance system morbidity data (severity duration compliance) collected for 14 days. Treatment effects determined by analysing cumulative probability cure testing Cox proportional hazards models and relative risk (RR). RESULTS: The significantly (P < 0.001) different receiving GB both [hazard ratio (HR) = 0.63 (95% CI: 0.56-0.67)] prolonged [HR 0.38 0.26-0.59)]. recovery rates with (vs. control) more day 3: 79.9%vs. 53.3% [(RR) 0.47 95% 0.41-0.55] 7: 96.6%vs. 89.1% (RR 0.32; 0.22-0.46) 0.001). Children had higher 10: 79.8%vs. 51.9% 0.42; 0.23-0.73) 14: 93.6%vs. 67.2% 0.22; 0.08-0.54) CONCLUSION: banana-supplemented diet hastened childhood managed Bangladesh. (c) 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.