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The No Means No South Africa Evaluation Study

NCT05295342 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2173

Last updated 2024-04-10

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Summary

This school-based study will evaluate a behavioral intervention-the No Means No (NMN) intervention-to reduce violence among enrolled girls, ages 10-19, through a cluster-randomized control trial and a nested qualitative study.

Conditions

  • Gender-based Violence
  • Sexual Violence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

No Means No intervention Girls' Curriculum

The No Means No (NMN) Girls' Curriculum is a violence prevention program designed for adolescent girls and young women 10-20 years old. This curriculum has been designed specifically for safer implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic. NMN Girls' programming is deeply rooted in Empowerment Self-Defense, which is a uniquely holistic, survivor-centered, feminist approach to self-protection skills. Youth educators called "Instructors" deliver the curriculum to young people in schools. This 8-hour intervention is comprised of classes that teach young people mental, verbal and physical self-defense skills that can be used to prevent sexual assault and other forms of gender-based violence.

BEHAVIORAL

No Means No intervention Boys' Curriculum

The No Means No (NMN) Boys' Curriculum is a violence prevention curriculum that has been designed specifically for implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Designed for adolescent boys and young men age 10-20. Like the girls program it is delivered by youth educators called "Instructors" in schools. This 8-hour intervention is comprised of classes that teach young people gender equitable attitudes, skills to defend equality and how to avoid violence as a power paradigm.

BEHAVIORAL

Active comparator: Life Orientation

The standard school-based Life Orientation curriculum

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • No Means No Worldwide

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • RTI International

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Miriam A Hartmann, MPH · RTI International

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-16
Primary Completion
2023-10-24
Completion
2023-10-24

Countries

  • South Africa

Study Locations

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