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Impacts of Clean Cookstoves and Empowerment Training on Women's Health in Refugee Settings

NCT04081441 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1555

Last updated 2022-08-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The main objective of this study is to understand the links and outcomes of adoption of a cleaner cookstove/fuel and exposure to a personal empowerment training on women's health outcomes in a Congolese refugee camp in Rwanda, with a focus on gender-based violence (GBV).

Conditions

  • Gender-based Violence
  • Adherence
  • Mental Health Wellness 1
  • Empowerment
  • Food Insecurity
  • Relationship, Family

Interventions

DEVICE

Inyenyeri clean cookstove and fuel system

The Inyenyeri cooking systems includes a tier 4 clean cooking system with biomass pellets that are purchased through the unconditional cash transfer program in the refugee camp

BEHAVIORAL

I-ACT (Individual, Agency-Centered Training) workshop

The I-ACT (Individual, Agency-Centered Training) empowerment workshop consists of behavioral exercises drawn primarily from positive psychology, that provide the tools to foster a growth mindset by allowing participants to understand the link between their thoughts, beliefs, and past actions to their future actions. Conducted in a workshop setting, this locally adapted version of the I-ACT curriculum consists of two days for women and a 1 day workshop for their male partners (as applicable)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundacion Plan International Espana

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

    collaborator OTHER

  • World Bank

    collaborator OTHER

  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anita V Shankar, Ph.D. · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  • Naira Kalra, Ph.D. · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-01
Primary Completion
2019-12-30
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • Rwanda

Study Locations

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