Evaluating the Hunger Project in Ghana

University of California (UC), Berkeley

Status and phase: Unknown; Early Phase 1

Conditions: To Better Understand How Epicenter's (Which House Education, Health and Finance Centers in Ghana) Increase Individual's Sense of Empowerment.

Treatments: Behavioral: Community Empowerment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00532753

CPHS Protocol #2007-4-42

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Hunger Project/Epicenter strategy is a community based development strategy that will positively affect health, education, empowerment, and consumption.

Full description

The investigators propose a randomized controlled design that will measure how The Hunger Projects' intervention affects the lives of Ghanaians. A pre-intervention baseline survey of approximately 4,000 households with over 20,000 individuals and two follow-up surveys of the same households will be conducted over the ten year experimental period.

Enrollment: 20,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The subject population will be individuals and households from communities in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Exclusion criteria

• Only exclusion criteria is that households outside of the Eastern region of Ghana will not be surveyed

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)