The SASA! Study: An Evaluation of a Community Intervention to Address Gender-based Violence and Reduce HIV/AIDS Risk in Uganda (SASA!)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00790959 |
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified February 2012 by Charlotte Watts, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : November 14, 2008
Last Update Posted : February 22, 2012
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Intimate Partner Violence HIV | Behavioral: SASA! Other: Control | Not Applicable |

Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 800 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Prevention |
Official Title: | The SASA! Study: a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of a Community Mobilisation Intervention to Prevention Violence Against Women and Reduce HIV/AIDS Risk in Kampala, Uganda |
Study Start Date : | October 2007 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | May 2012 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | May 2012 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: SASA! |
Behavioral: SASA!
A community mobilization approach to try to change community and individual attitudes and behaviours that support both the perpetration of violence against women and HIV risk behaviours The intervention team engages with four major groups of actors: community volunteers selected from the general public; community leaders (e.g. religious, cultural and local council leaders); resource persons (health care providers, police, etc); and institutional leaders. The community volunteers are a key component of the intensive intervention. |
Active Comparator: Control |
Other: Control
Control communities will receive the full SASA! intervention after completion of the SASA! Study. For the duration of the study, they will receive a less intensive intervention comprising the Division-level elements of SASA! (involving community leaders, resource persons and institutional leaders) without the community volunteers. |
- Past year experience of physical violence by an intimate partner (among women partnered in past year) [ Time Frame: 4 years after intervention implementation ]
- Past year experience of sexual violence by an intimate partner (among women partnered in the past year) [ Time Frame: 4 years after intervention implementation ]
- Acceptability of violence against women [ Time Frame: 4 years after intervention implementation ]
- Acceptability of a woman refusing sex [ Time Frame: 4 years after intervention implementation ]
- Community response to women experiencing physical and/or sexual IPV in past year (among women reporting physical/sexual IPV in past year) [ Time Frame: 4 years after intervention implementation ]
- Past year concurrent sexual partner (among men partnered in past year) [ Time Frame: 4 years after intervention implementation ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 49 Years (Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Lived in the community for at least one year
- Aged 18-49 years
- Satisfy gender requirement for sampling sub-cluster
Exclusion Criteria:
- Lack of informed consent

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00790959
Contact: Lori Michau, MA | +256 41 4531186 | lori.michau@raisingvoices.org | |
Contact: Charlotte Watts, PhD | +44 (0) 20 7927 2412 | charlotte.watts@lshtm.ac.uk |
Uganda | |
Raising Voices | Recruiting |
Kampala, Uganda | |
Principal Investigator: Lori Michau, MA |
Principal Investigator: | Charlotte Watts, PhD | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
Responsible Party: | Charlotte Watts, Professor of Social and Mathematical Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00790959 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
PHHPSASA1 |
First Posted: | November 14, 2008 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | February 22, 2012 |
Last Verified: | February 2012 |
Intimate Partner Violence HIV/AIDS Gender |
Prevention Community mobilisation Uganda |
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome HIV Infections Blood-Borne Infections Communicable Diseases Infections Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
Lentivirus Infections Retroviridae Infections RNA Virus Infections Virus Diseases Slow Virus Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Immune System Diseases |