The Sukhshanti Study: Effect of a Sanitation Intervention on Women's Health

University of Oklahoma (OU)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Stress, Psychological

Treatments: Other: GSF Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02739178

6580 Norman

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will measure the impact of sanitation access on women and girl's social and emotional health, behaviors, and quality of life in rural India before and after a sanitation intervention compared to a comparison group that will receive the same intervention at a later date.

Full description

This mixed-methods, quasi-experimental study will evaluate the extent to which the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) sanitation program in Bihar, India improves health and well-being among women and girls. Our study consists of a controlled before-and-after (CBA) study with an embedded ethnography.

Specific objectives are:

• Measure the effect of the GSF intervention on sanitation-related psychosocial stress (SRPS), generalized psychosocial stress (PSS), perceived quality of life, hair cortisol, and urogenital health among women between the ages of 14 and 65.
• Measure changes in sanitation adoption (e.g.: sanitation access and exclusive use) among individuals / households receiving the GSF intervention.
• Document individual and community experiences with sanitation, intervention participation, and latrine coverage through ethnographic methods.

Enrollment: 1,275 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 14 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• between 14 years to 65 years old
• live in geographic area receiving GSF sanitation intervention in 2016
• live in geographic areas matched to intervention communities

Exclusion criteria

• less than 25 years old and not reached menarche
• greater than 25 years old and never married
• refusal to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,275 participants in 2 patient groups

GSF Sanitation intervention

Experimental group

Description:

This arm will receive the GSF sanitation intervention, a community-level sanitation intervention

Treatment:

Other: GSF Intervention

Comparator

No Intervention group

Description:

This arm will receive the GSF intervention in 2017 or later.