Impact of Microfinance and Participatory Gender Training for Women in Reducing Intimate Partner Violence (MAISHA)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02592252 |
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified March 2018 by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : October 30, 2015
Last Update Posted : March 26, 2018
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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.
Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Maltreatment by Spouse or Partner | Behavioral: Participatory gender training Other: Microfinance | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 2640 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Prevention |
Official Title: | Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial to Assess the Impact of Combined Microfinance and Gender Training for Women and Gender Training for Women and Their Male Partners in Reducing Intimate Partner Violence |
Actual Study Start Date : | September 2014 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | July 2019 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | December 2019 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Microfinance + gender training
Microfinance + 10 sessions of participatory gender training
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Behavioral: Participatory gender training
10 sessions of participatory gender training Other: Microfinance Microfinance loan |
Experimental: Microfinance only
Receive microfinance only
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Other: Microfinance
Microfinance loan |
Experimental: Gender training only
10 sessions of participatory gender training for women and their male partners
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Behavioral: Participatory gender training
10 sessions of participatory gender training |
No Intervention: No intervention
No microfinance or participatory gender training
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- Past 12 months exposure to intimate partner violence [ Time Frame: 24 months post-intervention ]Exposure to intimate partner violence will be assessed using the WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women questionnaire

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 20 Years to 50 Years (Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
Arms 1 and 2 - microfinance loan groups:
- there are between 15 and 30 active members in the group
- less than 25% of the women have been members for less than one year
- there is a good attendance (repayment) record
- a minimum of 70% of active members consent to take part in the study
Arms 3 and 4, women who:
- are aged 20-50 years
- are not formally employed, i.e. either self-employed or not currently working
- have been resident in Mwanza for at least two years
- have not been a member of a microfinance loan group in the past 12 months
- are fluent in Swahili
- have consented to take part in the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
None

To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02592252
Contact: Sheila E Harvey, Ph.D | +44 (0)207 612 7854 | sheila.harvey@lshtm.ac.uk | |
Contact: Shelley Lees, Ph.D | 44 (0)207 327 2586 | shelley.lees@lshtm.ac.uk |
Tanzania | |
Mawanza Intervention Trials Unit | Recruiting |
Mwanza, Tanzania | |
Contact: Sheila E Harvey, Ph.D +44 (0)20 612 7854 sheila.harvey@lshtm.ac.uk | |
Contact: Shelley Lees, Ph.D +44 (0)20 7327 2586 shelley.lees@lshtm.ac.uk | |
Principal Investigator: Charlotte Watts, Ph.D | |
Principal Investigator: Saidi Kapiga, MD | |
Principal Investigator: Shelley Lees, Ph.D | |
Principal Investigator: Gerry Mshana, Ph.D |
Responsible Party: | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02592252 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
QA430 |
First Posted: | October 30, 2015 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | March 26, 2018 |
Last Verified: | March 2018 |