Clinical trial NCT02156219: Impact Evaluation of Separating Women and Men in the Metro of Mexico City
Official title: Building Capacity of State and Local Actors to Respond to Violence Against Women: Impact Evaluation of Separating Women and Men in the Metro of Mexico City, Component of the Program "Viajemos Seguras"
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: SUSPENDED
Conditions: Violence Against Women (VAW)
Lead sponsor: Econometría Consultores
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Inter-American Development Bank
First posted: 2014-06-05
Enrollment: 2360
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Women aged 18-65 who reside in Mexico City or the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico and that are users on the Metro lines 4, 5 and 6 between 7 and 9 or 11 and 1pm at baseline

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to determine whether the separation of men and women in the metro of Mexico City leads to an improvement in the violence and perception of violence towards women.

Detailed description: The purpose of this study is to determine whether the separation of men and women in the metro of Mexico City leads to an improvement in the violence and perception of violence towards women.

The separation of men and women will take place in the Line 5 of the metro system. The separation will operate between 6:00am-10:00am and 2:00pm and 10:30pm. Line 4 and 6 will be used to estimate the counterfactual.

Women eligible to participate in the study will be those aged 18 and 65 years who use lines 4, 5, and 6 between 7am and 9am or between 11am and 1pm before the separation between men and women is implemented. Eligible women must reside in Mexico City or the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico (60 municipalities agglomerates in the State of Hidalgo and Mexico State).

Women will be recruited in the metro before the separation between men and women is implemented. They will be asked for their name, e-mail and telephone number. Also before the separation is implemented, they will be asked to answer a telephone survey to collect baseline information. The same women will be contacted again in the following 12 to 15 months to collect the endline survey, also by phone. The implementation of the separation will take place after the baseline survey has been collected.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Women aged 18-65 who reside in Mexico City or the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico and that are users on the Metro lines 4, 5 and 6 between 7 and 9 or 11 and 1pm at baseline

Exclusion Criteria:

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Primary outcomes:
measure: Perception of safety in public transport
timeFrame: Average of 1 year since the start of the intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Events of Violence against women in public transport
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Behaviors, attitudes and perceptions of women about violence in public transport
timeFrame: Average of 1 year since the start of the intervention
measure: Women's autonomy (economic performance, activities outside the home)
timeFrame: Average of 1 years since the start of the intervention
measure: Negative externalities (perception of safety outside the public transport)
timeFrame: 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bogota
country: Colombia
facility: Econometria Consultores
Study officials:
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