What is it about?
This article is about a behavior change communication method used to promote safe water in the urban slams using disgust as motivator.
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Why is it important?
Health messages have been used for many years for changing behavior. However, the achievements were low. Recent studies have identified more motivational factors other than health and disease that could bring positive changes. Disgust is one of them. We innovated a cheap device that could demonstrate effectively how piped water could be contaminated with human feces. We tried to motivate people to treat their water before drinking at the household level using this device which is based on disgust as a motive.
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I think this article will be helpful for those researchers working to promote safe water. I hope they will find this behavior change communication method effective in changing water treatment behavior.
Dr Kaniz Jannat
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This page is a summary of: The Disgust Box: a novel approach to illustrate water contamination with feces, Global Health Promotion, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1757975916658638.
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