NCT06320964

The TARANG Intervention

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Group-based Life Skills-integrated Reproductive Health Empowerment Intervention for Newly Married Women, Husbands, and Mothers-in-law

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The mixed methods pilot study aims to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility, and implementation challenges of the TARANG intervention in villages in rural/tribal Rajasthan to inform the study design and operational details for a larger cluster-randomized controlled trial.

Detailed description

Participants will participate in the single group in the TARANG intervention arm and receive the sessions that will enable them to navigate newly formed relationships (e.g. spousal communication, healthy relationships with in-laws, establishing peer network, and negotiation skills), improve participants awareness of sexual reproductive health, enable participants to challenge inequitable gender norms to reduce unintended pregnancies. Newly married women (daughters-in-law) received 17 sessions; husbands received 4 sessions and mothers-in-law received 4 sessions. The sessions are implemented by NGO partner, Vikalp Sansthan via trained facilitators/moderators who are supervised by NGO staff. In this mixed methods pilot study, we aimed to qualitatively understand the participants' acceptability, feasibility of the TARANG intervention delivery, content, modules, etc. We also aimed to capture the qualitative impact of the TARANG intervention and pilot activities in communities/villages as well as to understand the operational challenges of delivery from participants and NGO moderators (key informants) delivering the intervention. Quantitative pre- and post-surveys were conducted to understand implementation outcomes such as feasibility, acceptability, and satisfaction, among other outcomes.

Conditions

• Feasibility
• Acceptability
• Family Planning
• Unintended Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	TARANG	For newly married women, the intervention had one introductory rapport-building session, followed by 16 group sessions facilitated by trained female moderators over 5 months. The intervention aimed to empower participants by enhancing their understanding of fundamental topics such as menstruation, conception, and contraception, choice of a method among others. Sessions also covered topics to strengthen participants' sense of agency and their ability to make informed decisions regarding family planning and the timing of their first childbirth. Similarly, for husbands, a male moderator delivered sessions on four topics: Love, Relationships and Expectations; Conception and Health; Contraception Methods, and how to choose family planning methods. For MILs, a female moderator covered four sessions: Nutrition flag, Conception and Health, communication between family members, and the final session on relationships with daughter-in-law.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-07-14
• Primary completion: 2024-01-21
• Completion: 2024-01-21
• First posted: 2024-03-20
• Last updated: 2025-02-06
• Results posted: 2025-02-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: India