Men Engagement in Women Empowerment for Improving Maternal Mental Health Through Cash Transfer and Life Skills Building (MEWE)

Aga Khan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Self Efficacy; Domestic Violence; Depression; Empowerment

Treatments: Behavioral: Life Skills Building Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04125251

OPP1148892

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project aims to offer Life Skills Building (LSB) intervention to Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) Cash Transfer (CT) beneficiaries in couples in order to reduce domestic violence and depression and improve women empowerment in married women of reproductive age. The intervention will be carried out in the rural settlements of district Thatta, Sindh Pakistan.

Full description

The study will assess the impact of Life Skill Building (LSB) to Benazir Income support Program (BISP) Cash Transfer (CT) beneficiaries and their husbands in improving maternal mental and child health and its combined effect in empowering women and couples. The Formative phase of the project was dedicated for the development and modification of National level LSB curriculum for men and women. The formative phase was carried out in Thatta (Sindh), Rahimyar Khan (Punjab), Lasbela (Baluchistan) and Peshawar (KPK).

The intervention phase will be conducted in district Thatta, where BISP beneficiaries along with their spouses will be offered a LSB training. This intervention will be offered by community teachers to ensure sustainability and community trust. The participants will be recruited for baseline assessment followed by a comprehensive LSB intervention.The end-line follow up assessments (five months of intervention) will be done after the deliver of intervention. A qualitative summative inquiry will be done at the completion of the project to explore the overall impact of the LSB intervention. Since the project is being implemented with the BISP, the cost of intervention can be estimated for the scalability and sustainability.

Enrollment: 1,696 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 49 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult married couples living together: where women receive Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) Cash Transfer (CT), have one child of at least 18 months and have no family migration plan for next 2 years

Exclusion criteria

• Gross mental impairment in either of the partners
• Either of the partner is physically challenged or bedridden

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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1,696 participants in 3 patient groups

BISP,CT & LSB to Couples

Active Comparator group

Description:

In this arm 1, the LSB intervention will be offered to the BISP-CT beneficiary women and their spouses

Treatment:

Behavioral: Life Skills Building Training

BISP,CT & LSB to Women

Active Comparator group

Description:

In this arm, the LSB intervention will be offered to the BISP-CT beneficiary women only.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Life Skills Building Training

BISP,CT & No LSB

No Intervention group

Description:

This is the control group, where neither BISP-CT beneficiary women nor their spouses will be offered the LSB intervention