Evaluation of Impacts of Health Education for Children of Microcredit Clients in Peru

NCT01047033 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: IPA-2007-PE
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 2,453
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This purpose of this study is to determine whether a health education intervention for clients of a microcredit organization in Peru will improve health outcomes among clients and their children.

Conditions

Child Health Status

Keywords

Poverty; Global health; International health; Latin America; Peru; Child health; Microcredit; Microenterprise; Microfinance

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Anthropometric measures including height, weight, and blood hemoglobin level

  One year after intervention begins

• Client health knowledge on a variety of issues related to child health (e.g. diarrhea, fever)

  One year after intervention begins

• Child health status as measured by a variety of indicators (e.g. days of diarrhea, presence of bloody diarrhea, presence of severe cough, days of fever, etc.)

  One year after intervention begins

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Social support as measured by the Duke-UNC FSSQ

  One year after intervention begins

Study Arms (2)

Microcredit only

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Other: Microcredit

Microcredit plus health education

EXPERIMENTAL

Thirty minutes of a health education module administered to clients by loan officer at their monthly group meetings over the course of 8 months.

Behavioral: Health education; Other: Microcredit

Interventions

Health education BEHAVIORAL

30 minutes of a health education module delivered to clients by loan officers during monthly repayment meetings, over the course of 8 months.

Microcredit plus health education

Microcredit OTHER

Small loans administered to clients through the collaborating microcredit organization, to be repaid monthly over the course of six months in the context of monthly loan group meetings.

Microcredit only; Microcredit plus health education

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Subjects must be current clients of the collaborating microcredit organization
• Clients must be at least 18 years of age
• Children of clients must be less than 5 years of age
• Study participants must be able to speak and understand Spanish

You may not qualify if:

• Only one client from any particular household may participate

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Innovations for Poverty Action: lead
• American Medical Women's Association: collaborator
• University of California, Berkeley: collaborator
• Center for Latin American Studies at UCB: collaborator
• University of California, San Francisco: collaborator
• Interdisciplinary MPH Program at the UCB School of Public Health: collaborator
• Rainer Fund: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Innovations for Poverty Action

Pucallpa, Peru

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Hamad R, Fernald LCh, Karlan DS. Health education for microcredit clients in Peru: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2011 Jan 24;11(1):51. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-51.

  PMID: 21261988 DERIVED

Study Officials

• Lia Fernald, PhD MBA

  University of California, Berkeley

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Dean Karlan, PhD MBA MPP

  Yale University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 8, 2010
• First Posted: January 12, 2010
• Study Start: January 1, 2007
• Primary Completion: February 1, 2008
• Study Completion: February 1, 2008
• Last Updated: January 12, 2010

Record last verified: 2010-01

Locations

PE (1)