Clinical trial NCT05598697: Economic Evaluation of the MEWE Intervention
Official title: Economic Evaluation of the Men Engagement in Women Empowerment (MEWE) Intervention (MEWE-EE)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Depression
Mental Health Issue
Intimate Partner Violence
Domestic Violence
Gender-based Violence
Rape Sexual Assault
Battered Women
Keywords: violence
abuse
coercion
assault
aggression
gender
women
girl
wife
partner
spouse
sexual
physical
psychological
economic
Lead sponsor: London School of Economics and Political Science
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Aga Khan University
name: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
First posted: 2022-10-28
Enrollment: 1536
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 15
Maximum age (years): 49
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Cash transfers have shown promise in preventing intimate partner violence, and in reducing recipients' stress levels. Cash transfers with behavioral or psychological interventions have shown limited effectiveness at reducing stress in some African countries. Little is known of the cost-effectiveness of interventions delivered alongside cash transfer programs. The MEWE economic evaluation sub-study (MEWE-EE) runs alongside MEWE, a three-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial in Sindh, Pakistan. MEWE-EE will assess the costs and cost-effectiveness of delivering a cash-transfer program (BISP-CT) combined with a life-skills building curriculum (LSB curriculum), compared to the BISP-CT alone. The LSB curriculum is offered to either women who receive BISP-CT, or to women who receive BISP-CT and their husbands.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* In receipt of Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) cash transfers (CTs)
* Parity: have at least one child, at least 18 months old

Exclusion Criteria:

* Plan for the family to migrate out of the village within the next 2 years

Primary outcomes:
measure: Incremental cost incurred per disability adjusted life year (DALY) averted: provider perspective
timeFrame: 12 months post randomisation
measure: Incremental cost incurred per disability adjusted life year (DALY) averted: societal perspective
timeFrame: 12 months post randomisation
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Mean cost of intervention delivery
timeFrame: 12 months post randomisation
measure: Mean cost of LSB session
timeFrame: 12 months post randomisation
measure: Total incremental cost of the intervention in a research setting
timeFrame: 12 months post randomisation
measure: Total incremental cost of the intervention in the modelling cohort
timeFrame: 12 months post randomisation
measure: Incremental cost incurred per disability adjusted life year (DALY) averted at scale: provider perspective
timeFrame: 12 months post randomisation
measure: Incremental cost incurred per disability adjusted life year (DALY) averted at scale: societal perspective
timeFrame: 12 months post randomisation
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Thatta
country: Pakistan
facility: Mirpur Sakro
state: Sindh
Study officials:
affiliation: London School of Economics & Political Science
name: Giulia Ferrari, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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