Table 6 Quality assessment of effect estimates of financial incentives on management of diarrhoeal disease
Intervention | No. of studies | Design | Limitations | Consistency | Generalizability to population of interest | Conditionalities related to outcome (no. of studies) | Overall quality of evidence | Mean difference (95% CI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ORS use | ||||||||
Unconditional microcredit | 1 | Cross-sectional | Only one study | - | Pakistan | - | Low | 0.02 (-0.02; 0.05) |
Conditional microcredit | 1 | Cohort | Only one study | - | Ghana | Health and nutrition education (1) | Low | 0.65 (0.53; 0.77) |
Continued feeding | ||||||||
Conditional microcredit | 2 | Cluster RCT/Cohort | Only two studies; analysis of cRCT does not account for clustering | Consistent | Bolivia and Ghana | Health and nutrition education (2) | Low | 0.03 (-0.07; 0.13) |
Care-seeking | ||||||||
Conditional cash transfer | 1 | Cluster RCT | Only one study; outcome not limited to diarrhea, includes consultations for other diseases | - | Nicaragua | Children’s health service attendance, but not monitored (1) | Low | 0.03 (-0.03; 0.09) |