SUUBI MAKA ("Hope for Families"): A Family-Based Economic Empowerment Model for Orphaned Children in Uganda
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 300
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Savings and asset-accumulation
研究概览
简要总结
The overall goal of SUUBI-MAKA is to further develop and preliminarily examine a family economic empowerment intervention that creates economic opportunities (specifically Children Development Accounts) for families in Uganda who are caring for children orphaned due to the AIDS pandemic, and to lay groundwork for a bigger study with practice and policy implications for Sub-Saharan Africa.
详细描述
The study has two specific aims (1) To conduct formative work in order to understand children and families´ ability and interest in participating in a family-level economic empowerment intervention focused on savings and family income generation, and their response to this family-focused economic empowerment approach alongside additional intervention components, including savings for youth education and adult mentorship. (2) Based on formative data (Aim #1), to adapt the intervention and examine issues related to feasibility and preliminary outcome on a small scale in order to prepare for a larger study.
The intervention, SUUBI-MAKA, uses a novel approach by focusing on economic empowerment of families caring for children orphaned due to AIDS. The intervention has three key components (1) it promotes family-level income generating projects (micro-enterprises) which we believe will enhance economic stability, reduce poverty, and enhance protective family processes for youth orphaned by AIDS. (2) It promotes monetary savings for educational opportunities for AIDS-orphaned children. (3) It provides an adult mentor to children. The intervention will be evaluated via a two-group randomized trial. The two groups are SUUBI-MAKA or Usual care for orphaned children. The participating children will be nested within 20 primary schools that will be randomly assigned such that all children from a particular school receive the same intervention.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 11 Years 至 16 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •An AIDS-orphaned child, defined as a child who has lost one or both parents to AIDS;
- •Enrolled in the last two years of primary school (even though possibly not attending regularly);
- •Between the ages of 11 to 16 years;
- •Living within a family.
排除标准
- •Any youth below 11 years or above 16 years at the time of enrollment in the study;
- •Any youth not enrolled in the final two years of primary school;
- •Any youth who does not self-identify as an AIDS-orphan;
- •Any youth not being raised primarily within a family context at the start of the study.
结局指标
主要结局
Savings and asset-accumulation
时间窗: 24-month post-intervention
Formal and informal savings, wealth/assets (e.g. livestock, type of housing), and attitudes toward saving
Educational outcomes
时间窗: 24-month post-intervention
School enrollment, School attendance, School grades, Educational plans and aspirations
Sexual risk taking
时间窗: 24-month post-intervention
Sexual risk taking behavior (onset of sexual intercourse, unprotected sexual intercourse), Intentions to engage in sexual risk behaviors, HIV knowledge
次要结局
- Mental health(24-month post-intervention)
- Social and family support(24-month post-intervention)
研究者
Fred Ssewamala, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Work
Columbia University