Shaping the Health of Adolescents in Zimbabwe (SHAZ!)

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV

Treatments: Behavioral: Life skills education; Behavioral: Economic livelihoods; Other: Reproductive health services

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02034214

037044

R01HD045135 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The SHAZ! study was a randomized trial that compared a package of life skills education, reproductive health care services, and economic livelihood development to a control package of life skills education and reproductive health care services alone. SHAZ! enrolled young women 16 to 19 years old who had been orphaned and who were currently out of school and not infected with HIV. Individuals participated in the project for up to two years.

Enrollment: 367 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 16 to 19 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 16 to 19 years old
• out of school
• orphaned
• willing to participate in intervention activities
• living in Chitungwiza

Exclusion criteria

• HIV infection
• currently pregnant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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367 participants in 2 patient groups

Full Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Life skills education vocational counseling Economic livelihoods reproductive health services social support

Treatment:

Other: Reproductive health services

Behavioral: Life skills education

Behavioral: Economic livelihoods

Education and health services alone

Active Comparator group

Description:

Life skills education Reproductive health services

Treatment:

Other: Reproductive health services

Behavioral: Life skills education