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

Sponsor:

Collaborators:

Raising Voices

Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention, Uganda

Makerere University

Sigrid Rausing Trust

Irish Aid

Stephen Lewis Foundation

Information provided by (Responsible Party):

Charlotte Watts, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Study Description

Brief Summary:

The SASA! Study is a cluster randomized trial of a community mobilization intervention for the prevention of HIV and gender based violence. The study is being conducted in Kampala, Uganda.

Condition or disease	Intervention/treatment	Phase
Intimate Partner Violence HIV	Behavioral: SASA! Other: Control	Not Applicable

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Study Design


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

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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS

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Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/treatment
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.

Arm

Intervention/treatment

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.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures :

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 ]

Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years to 49 Years (Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:	All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

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

Contacts and Locations

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Contacts


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

Locations


Uganda
Raising Voices	Recruiting
Kampala, Uganda
Principal Investigator: Lori Michau, MA

Sponsors and Collaborators

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Raising Voices

Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention, Uganda

Makerere University

Sigrid Rausing Trust

Irish Aid

Stephen Lewis Foundation

Investigators


Principal Investigator:	Charlotte Watts, PhD	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

More Information

Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):

Abramsky T, Devries KM, Michau L, Nakuti J, Musuya T, Kiss L, Kyegombe N, Watts C. Ecological pathways to prevention: How does the SASA! community mobilisation model work to prevent physical intimate partner violence against women? BMC Public Health. 2016 Apr 16;16:339. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3018-9.

Michaels-Igbokwe C, Abramsky T, Devries K, Michau L, Musuya T, Watts C. Cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of a community mobilisation intervention to reduce intimate partner violence in Kampala, Uganda. BMC Public Health. 2016 Feb 29;16:196. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-2883-6.

Abramsky T, Devries KM, Michau L, Nakuti J, Musuya T, Kyegombe N, Watts C. The impact of SASA!, a community mobilisation intervention, on women's experiences of intimate partner violence: secondary findings from a cluster randomised trial in Kampala, Uganda. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2016 Aug;70(8):818-25. doi: 10.1136/jech-2015-206665. Epub 2016 Feb 12.

Kyegombe N, Abramsky T, Devries KM, Starmann E, Michau L, Nakuti J, Musuya T, Heise L, Watts C. The impact of SASA!, a community mobilization intervention, on reported HIV-related risk behaviours and relationship dynamics in Kampala, Uganda. J Int AIDS Soc. 2014 Nov 5;17:19232. doi: 10.7448/IAS.17.1.19232. eCollection 2014.

Abramsky T, Devries K, Kiss L, Nakuti J, Kyegombe N, Starmann E, Cundill B, Francisco L, Kaye D, Musuya T, Michau L, Watts C. Findings from the SASA! Study: a cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of a community mobilization intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda. BMC Med. 2014 Jul 31;12:122. doi: 10.1186/s12916-014-0122-5.

Abramsky T, Devries K, Kiss L, Francisco L, Nakuti J, Musuya T, Kyegombe N, Starmann E, Kaye D, Michau L, Watts C. A community mobilisation intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV/AIDS risk in Kampala, Uganda (the SASA! Study): study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials. 2012 Jun 29;13:96. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-96.


Responsible Party:	Charlotte Watts, Professor of Social and Mathematical Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00790959 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	PHHPSASA1
First Posted:	November 14, 2008 Key Record Dates
Last Update Posted:	February 22, 2012
Last Verified:	February 2012

Keywords provided by Charlotte Watts, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine:


Intimate Partner Violence HIV/AIDS Gender	Prevention Community mobilisation Uganda

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