Understanding the Role of Gender Inequality and Food Insecurity on Maternal and Child Health

NCT04383847 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: DiamondSmithK01K01HD086281
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 90
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

To pilot test a group intervention for newly married women and their households to improve nutrition, pregnancy and delivery knowledge, and intrahousehold communication

Conditions

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Attendance and Attrition of Participants

  Proportion of meetings that respondents reported that they attend, combined with the attrition rate

  4 months

• Participant Satisfaction

  Proportion of respondents who state that they were satisfied with the intervention, answering "Very satisfied" or "satisfied" to a 5 point scale from very dissatisfied, dissatisfied, neither dissatisfied or satisfied, satisfied or very satisfied.

  4 months

Study Arms (1)

Main study

EXPERIMENTAL

There is only 1 arm because this is a feasibility and acceptability pilot.

Behavioral: Sumadhur Aarambha

Interventions

Sumadhur Aarambha BEHAVIORAL

Group intervention for newly married women, their husbands, and mothers-in-law with information mainly about nutrition, but also pre-pregnancy health, reproductive/pregnancy health and gender equality.

Main study

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• the household has a newly married couple (married in the last 3 months)
• a living mother-in-law
• both the woman and man being over the age of 18

You may not qualify if:

• Under 18
• not recently married

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of California, San Francisco: lead
• Center for Research on Environment, Health and Population Activities: collaborator
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Community based

Nawalparasi, Nawalparasi, Nepal

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Diamond-Smith N, Mitchell A, Cornell A, Dahal M, Gopalakrishnan L, Johnson M, Weiser S, Puri M. The development and feasibility of a group-based household-level intervention to improve preconception nutrition in Nawalparasi district of Nepal. BMC Public Health. 2022 Apr 6;22(1):666. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-12980-w.

  PMID: 35387647 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Behavior

Study Officials

• Nadia G Diamond-Smith, PhD

  University of California, San Francisco

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Masking Details: No masking
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Feasibility study in 30 groups, pre post, no control

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 7, 2020
• First Posted: May 12, 2020
• Study Start: February 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2021
• Study Completion: October 1, 2021
• Last Updated: April 2, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

NE (1)