SEE Change Evaluation - Impacts of Personal Agency Training on Ugandan Entrepreneurs

NCT ID: NCT05958225

Last Updated: 2024-11-14

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

814 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-09-19

Study Completion Date

2024-10-30

Brief Summary

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This study is proposed as an individually randomized control trial (RCT) designed to assess the short-term impacts (follow up at six months) of a personal agency training on a range of economic and health outcomes for micro and small entrepreneurs in Western and Central Uganda. Participants will be randomly selected and assigned to either the intervention group (n=400) or wait-listed control group (n=400). The intervention will include the standard Empowered Entrepreneur training curriculum which includes personal agency alongside basic business training that has been developed by the SEE Change team. This training will take place over three consecutive days (approximately 25 hours of content).

Detailed Description

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The investigators propose to examine the comparative impacts of a personal agency and business training curricula on outcome measures focused in three areas 1) business related outcomes; 2) personal agency and flourishing; and 3) social spillover impacts.

Aim 1: Assess changes in business related outcomes including improved sales and profit, enhanced business skills and behaviors, and business-related goal setting.

Aim 2: Assess changes in personal agency and flourishing as determined through personal goal setting and psychometric measurements of self-esteem, self-confidence, grit and flourishing.

Aim 3: Assess social spillover impacts of the training on depression, anxiety and stress, and changes in gender norms and attitudes.

Conditions

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Well-Being, Psychological Economic Hardship Stress

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Participants will be randomly selected (using a stratified random sampling, stratified by gender) and assigned to either the intervention group (n=400) or wait-listed control group (n=400).
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Personal agency, leadership and business training

Entrepreneurs will participate in a 3 day residential training (based on SEE Change's Empowered Entrepreneur training) that integrates personal agency with basic business and leadership topics. Participants will also get weekly support messages on their phone for 6 weeks and a check in by a training once a month for 3 months.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

SEE Change Business and Personal Agency Training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A three day residential training based on SEE Change's Empowered Entrepreneur Training curriculum. This training will be led by a certified SEE Change trained facilitator. The workshop will include individual and group exercises that allow participants to increase their self-awareness, build mental tools for resiliency and adaptability in their life, create life visions and key tools to create behavior change. Additional exercises will include specific business related content including record keeping, financial planning and marketing strategies based on the Business Model Canvas tool.

After the 3 day training, the participants will receive a supportive message through an interactive voice recording, once a week for 6 weeks. In addition, they will be contacted once a month, for three months (either by phone or in person) by the trainer to see how they are doing on their goals.

Control

For this study, the control participants will not receive any intervention.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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SEE Change Business and Personal Agency Training

A three day residential training based on SEE Change's Empowered Entrepreneur Training curriculum. This training will be led by a certified SEE Change trained facilitator. The workshop will include individual and group exercises that allow participants to increase their self-awareness, build mental tools for resiliency and adaptability in their life, create life visions and key tools to create behavior change. Additional exercises will include specific business related content including record keeping, financial planning and marketing strategies based on the Business Model Canvas tool.

After the 3 day training, the participants will receive a supportive message through an interactive voice recording, once a week for 6 weeks. In addition, they will be contacted once a month, for three months (either by phone or in person) by the trainer to see how they are doing on their goals.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Small or micro entrepreneur;
* Business has been in operation/existence for at least the past 12 months;
* Entrepreneur is between the ages of 18 and 55;
* Entrepreneur has the ability to participate in all training activities;
* Informed consent is obtained from the entrepreneur;
* The entrepreneur is not planning to leave the area in the next 12 months;
* The entrepreneur has access to a phone for contact purposes;

Exclusion Criteria

* Entrepreneur is unable to provide informed consent or informed consent is not obtained;
* Entrepreneur is not considered a small or micro entrepreneur;
* Entrepreneur is younger than 18 years of age;
* Business has been in operation/existence for less than 12 months;
* Entrepreneur's primary business is farming (anything related to seasonal crop production);
* Entrepreneur is planning to leave the area in the next 12 months;
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

55 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Investors Club/Enterprise Uganda

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Innovations for Poverty Action

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Anita V Shankar, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Associate Scientist, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Locations

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Innovations for Poverty Action

Kampala, , Uganda

Site Status

Countries

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Uganda

References

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Reference Type BACKGROUND

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Other Identifiers

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IRB00024029

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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