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Group-based Life Skills and Health Empowerment for Married Women to Avoid Unintended Pregnancies in India
Led by University of California, San Francisco · Updated on 2025-07-30
2400
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
176 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
U
University of California, San Francisco
Lead Sponsor
N
Network for Engineering and Economics Research and Management
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
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 the prevalence of contraceptive use and time-to-pregnancy (primary outcomes) in Rajasthan, India. Participants will participate in TARANG intervention and receive the following sessions: 1. Navigating newly formed relationships (e.g. spousal communication, healthy relationships with in-laws, establishing peer network, and negotiation skills) 2. Improving women's awareness of sexual reproductive health 3. Challenging inequitable gender norms with an aim to reduce unintended pregnancies. 4. Life skills education to enable them to have improved social mobility, decision-making, and agency. Investigators will compare the TARANG intervention with the standard of care to see if it delays unintended pregnancies among women.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Group-based Life Skills and Health Empowerment for Married Women to Avoid Unintended Pregnancies in India
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Women aged 18 to 25 years at the time of their wedding
- Women who have permanently moved into their husband's home in the most recent wedding season
- Women not wanting to become pregnant within 1 year of enrollment
- Women who have not had a live birth before and are not currently pregnant
- Women not planning to move away from the area during the intervention
- Women with a living husband willing to consent and participate
- Women with a living mother-in-law or senior female relative living in the same household willing to consent and participate
- Husbands aged 18 years or older at the time of the wedding
- Husbands whose wife and mother are eligible and participating
- Mothers-in-law who consent to participate and assent for their daughter-in-law to participate
- Mothers-in-law whose son and daughter-in-law are eligible for the study
You will not qualify if you...
- Women wanting to have a child within the next 12 months at baseline
- Women lacking the cognitive ability to participate in surveys
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Vikalp Sansthan
Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, 313011
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Research Team
N
Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD
CONTACT
S
Sumeet R Patil, PhD
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
PREVENTION
Number of Arms
2
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