Evaluating the Hunger Project in Ghana

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

EARLY_PHASE1

Total Enrollment

20000 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2007-08-31

Study Completion Date

2016-05-31

Brief Summary

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

Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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

Keywords

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empowerment health education

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Interventions

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Community Empowerment

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

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

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Responsible Party

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UC Berkeley

Principal Investigators

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David Levine, PhD Econ

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California at Berkeley

Locations

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Ghana Hunger Project

Several, Eastern Region, Ghana

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Ghana

Facility Contacts

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Melissa Hidrobo, PhD Student Economics

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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CPHS Protocol #2007-4-42

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id