Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial to Assess the Impact of Combined Microfinance and Gender Training for Women and Gender Training for Women and Their Male Partners in Reducing Intimate Partner Violence
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 2,640
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Past 12 months exposure to intimate partner violence
研究概览
简要总结
Violence against women and girls is increasingly recognized as a major global public health and development concern. However, evidence on what forms of intervention should be prioritised is severely lacking. A cluster randomized controlled trial (The Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS & Gender Equity - IMAGE Project) in rural South Africa combined a group-based microfinance intervention with a participatory gender and HIV training curriculum for loan participants and showed that, over a two-year period, levels of physical and/or sexual partner violence experienced by participants in the past year were reduced by 55%.
The overall goal of the current study is to design and implement a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact on intimate partner violence of: 1) combining participatory gender training with microfinance for women in existing microfinance loan groups, and 2) a participatory gender training programme for women (not receiving microfinance) and their male partners.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 20 Years 至 50 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Arms 1 and 2 - microfinance loan groups:
- •there are between 15 and 30 active members in the group
- •less than 25% of the women have been members for less than one year
- •there is a good attendance (repayment) record
- •a minimum of 70% of active members consent to take part in the study
- •Arms 3 and 4, women who:
- •are aged 20-50 years
- •are not formally employed, i.e. either self-employed or not currently working
- •have been resident in Mwanza for at least two years
- •have not been a member of a microfinance loan group in the past 12 months
- •are fluent in Swahili
- •have consented to take part in the study.
排除标准
- 未提供
研究组 & 干预措施
Microfinance + gender training
Microfinance + 10 sessions of participatory gender training
干预措施: Participatory gender training (Behavioral)
Microfinance + gender training
Microfinance + 10 sessions of participatory gender training
干预措施: Microfinance (Other)
Microfinance only
Receive microfinance only
干预措施: Microfinance (Other)
Gender training only
10 sessions of participatory gender training for women and their male partners
干预措施: Participatory gender training (Behavioral)
No intervention
No microfinance or participatory gender training
结局指标
主要结局
Past 12 months exposure to intimate partner violence
时间窗: 24 months post-intervention
Exposure to intimate partner violence will be assessed using the WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women questionnaire
次要结局
未报告次要终点