Impact of Microfinance and Participatory Gender Training for Women in Reducing Intimate Partner Violence

NCT ID: NCT02592252

Last Updated: 2018-03-26

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

2640 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2014-09-30

Study Completion Date

2019-12-31

Brief Summary

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Violence against women and girls is increasingly recognized as a major global public health and development concern. However, evidence on what forms of intervention should be prioritised is severely lacking. A cluster randomized controlled trial (The Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS \& Gender Equity - IMAGE Project) in rural South Africa combined a group-based microfinance intervention with a participatory gender and HIV training curriculum for loan participants and showed that, over a two-year period, levels of physical and/or sexual partner violence experienced by participants in the past year were reduced by 55%.

The overall goal of the current study is to design and implement a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact on intimate partner violence of: 1) combining participatory gender training with microfinance for women in existing microfinance loan groups, and 2) a participatory gender training programme for women (not receiving microfinance) and their male partners.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Maltreatment by Spouse or Partner

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Microfinance + gender training

Microfinance + 10 sessions of participatory gender training

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Participatory gender training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

10 sessions of participatory gender training

Microfinance

Intervention Type OTHER

Microfinance loan

Microfinance only

Receive microfinance only

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Microfinance

Intervention Type OTHER

Microfinance loan

Gender training only

10 sessions of participatory gender training for women and their male partners

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Participatory gender training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

10 sessions of participatory gender training

No intervention

No microfinance or participatory gender training

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Participatory gender training

10 sessions of participatory gender training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Microfinance

Microfinance loan

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Arms 1 and 2 - microfinance loan groups:

1. there are between 15 and 30 active members in the group
2. less than 25% of the women have been members for less than one year
3. there is a good attendance (repayment) record
4. a minimum of 70% of active members consent to take part in the study

Arms 3 and 4, women who:

1. are aged 20-50 years
2. are not formally employed, i.e. either self-employed or not currently working
3. have been resident in Mwanza for at least two years
4. have not been a member of a microfinance loan group in the past 12 months
5. are fluent in Swahili
6. have consented to take part in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

None
Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

50 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

EngenderHealth

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Mawanza Intervention Trials Unit

Mwanza, , Tanzania

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Tanzania

Central Contacts

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Sheila E Harvey, Ph.D

Role: CONTACT

+44 (0)207 612 7854

Shelley Lees, Ph.D

Role: CONTACT

44 (0)207 327 2586

Facility Contacts

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Sheila E Harvey, Ph.D

Role: primary

+44 (0)20 612 7854

Shelley Lees, Ph.D

Role: backup

+44 (0)20 7327 2586

References

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Abramsky T, Guadarrama DS, Kapiga S, Mtolela G, Madaha F, Lees S, Harvey S. Pathways to reduced physical intimate partner violence among women in north-western Tanzania: Evidence from two cluster randomised trials of the MAISHA intervention. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023 Nov 13;3(11):e0002497. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002497. eCollection 2023.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 37956111 (View on PubMed)

Abramsky T, Harvey S, Mosha N, Mtolela G, Gibbs A, Mshana G, Lees S, Kapiga S, Stockl H. Longitudinal inconsistencies in women's self-reports of lifetime experience of physical and sexual IPV: evidence from the MAISHA trial and follow-on study in North-western Tanzania. BMC Womens Health. 2022 Apr 15;22(1):120. doi: 10.1186/s12905-022-01697-y.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 35428296 (View on PubMed)

Harvey S, Abramsky T, Mshana G, Hansen CH, Mtolela GJ, Madaha F, Hashim R, Kapinga I, Watts C, Lees S, Kapiga S. A cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a gender transformative intervention on intimate partner violence against women in newly formed neighbourhood groups in Tanzania. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Jul;6(7):e004555. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004555.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 34301673 (View on PubMed)

Kapiga S, Harvey S, Mshana G, Hansen CH, Mtolela GJ, Madaha F, Hashim R, Kapinga I, Mosha N, Abramsky T, Lees S, Watts C. A social empowerment intervention to prevent intimate partner violence against women in a microfinance scheme in Tanzania: findings from the MAISHA cluster randomised controlled trial. Lancet Glob Health. 2019 Oct;7(10):e1423-e1434. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30316-X.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31537372 (View on PubMed)

Abramsky T, Lees S, Stockl H, Harvey S, Kapinga I, Ranganathan M, Mshana G, Kapiga S. Women's income and risk of intimate partner violence: secondary findings from the MAISHA cluster randomised trial in North-Western Tanzania. BMC Public Health. 2019 Aug 14;19(1):1108. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7454-1.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31412825 (View on PubMed)

Harvey S, Lees S, Mshana G, Pilger D, Hansen C, Kapiga S, Watts C. A cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact on intimate partner violence of a 10-session participatory gender training curriculum delivered to women taking part in a group-based microfinance loan scheme in Tanzania (MAISHA CRT01): study protocol. BMC Womens Health. 2018 Apr 2;18(1):55. doi: 10.1186/s12905-018-0546-8.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 29609568 (View on PubMed)

Kapiga S, Harvey S, Muhammad AK, Stockl H, Mshana G, Hashim R, Hansen C, Lees S, Watts C. Prevalence of intimate partner violence and abuse and associated factors among women enrolled into a cluster randomised trial in northwestern Tanzania. BMC Public Health. 2017 Feb 14;17(1):190. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4119-9.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 28193198 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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QA430

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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