Status:

RECRUITING

Group-based Life Skills and Health Empowerment for Married Women to Avoid Unintended Pregnancies in India

Lead Sponsor:

University of California, San Francisco

Collaborating Sponsors:

Network for Engineering and Economics Research and Management

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Conditions:

Pregnancy, Unplanned

Contraceptive Behavior

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The goal of the cluster randomized trial is to evaluate the impact of a reproductive health and empowerment intervention (TARANG) compared to the standard of care health information (control group) on...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion Criteria for newly married women:
  • Age 18-25 years at the time of the wedding
  • Married women have permanently moved in their husbands home in the most recent wedding season (recruitment month going backwards up to October of the previous year)
  • Not wanting to get pregnant within 1 year at recruitment/enrollment
  • Have not had a live birth previously and not currently pregnant
  • Women not planning to migrate out of the area for the period of the intervention
  • • Has a living husband who is willing to consent and participate in the study in person or remotely (over phone)
  • Has a living, co-residing mother-in-law type person\* (see definition below) who is willing to consent and participate in the study in person (A mother-in-law type of person should be staying in the same household for the period of the intervention and has consented to participate in the study. Mother-in-law is defined as any senior woman (from a previous generation of the DIL) who are responsible for their daughter-in-law and cohabiting in the same household as their daughter-in-law (Note - household would mean a family unit which shares the same kitchen). This will usually be the biological mother of the husband, but it can be stepmother, grandmother, aunt, etc.)
  • Inclusion criteria for husband:
  • 18 years or more at the time of the wedding
  • Mother and wife are eligible for the study participation
  • Inclusion criteria for mother-in-law:
  • Consent to participate in the study
  • Assents for daughter-in-law to participate in the study
  • Son and the daughter-in-law are eligible for study participation
  • Exclusion criteria for newly married women:
  • Wanting to have a child in the next 12 months at the time of baseline
  • Cognitive ability to participate in surveys

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    April 15 2024

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ESTIMATED

    End Date :

    September 1 2027

    Estimated Enrollment :

    2400 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT06024616

    Start Date

    April 15 2024

    End Date

    September 1 2027

    Last Update

    July 30 2025

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    Vikalp Sansthan

    Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, 313011