NCT06024616

Group-based Life Skills and Health Empowerment for Married Women to Avoid Unintended Pregnancies in India

The Impact of Group-based Life Skills and Health Empowerment for Young, Married, Women to Avoid Unintended Pregnancies in India

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,400 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of the cluster randomized trial is to evaluate the impact of a reproductive health and empowerment intervention (TARANG) compared to the standard of care health information (control group) on the prevalence of contraceptive use and time-to-pregnancy (primary outcomes) in Rajasthan, India. Participants will participate in TARANG intervention and receive the following sessions: 1. Navigating newly formed relationships (e.g. spousal communication, healthy relationships with in-laws, establishing peer network, and negotiation skills) 2. Improving women's awareness of sexual reproductive health 3. Challenging inequitable gender norms with an aim to reduce unintended pregnancies. 4. Life skills education to enable them to have improved social mobility, decision-making, and agency. Investigators will compare the TARANG intervention with the standard of care to see if it delays unintended pregnancies among women.

Conditions

• Pregnancy, Unplanned
• Contraceptive Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	TARANG	TARANG is aimed to empower young women to navigate newly formed relationships, improve women's awareness of sexual reproductive health, and challenge inequitable gender norms, with an aim to reduce unintended pregnancies and increase use of family planning. The TARANG intervention for newly married women will include 14 group sessions delivered by trained moderators from Vikalp. It will cover three overarching themes, including norms, empowerment, and sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing. Four light-touch sessions for mothers-in-law and one in-person session for husbands of newly married women will be conducted. For husbands, TARANG will include one 2-hour group session within the first month of the intervention, followed by regular and moderated content delivery via videos and take-home exercises over WhatsApp groups. Vikalp will conduct door-to-door listing, and a research team from NEERMAN will recruit households into the study depending on the eligibility criteria.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-15
• Primary completion: 2027-09-01
• Completion: 2027-09-01
• First posted: 2023-09-06
• Last updated: 2025-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: India