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Developing and Testing the Jenga Dada Intervention in Kenya

NCT06414070 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 238

Last updated 2026-02-23

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Summary

This study aims to work with women's economic empowerment groups within the community to address reproductive coercion and intimate partner violence and promote economic self-sufficiency among women (aged 15+ years). Based on the investigators' previous research in the United States, Bangladesh, and Kenya, the ARCHES (Addressing Reproductive Coercion in Health Settings) intervention is a highly effective clinic-based model to improve women's ability to use family planning and cope with abuse. Due to common requests for community-based support, content from the ARCHES intervention along with Girls Invest, an economic empowerment intervention implemented in the US and Nigeria, is being adapted to develop Jenga Dada, which means "Build a Woman Up" in Kiswahili, to be delivered to women's economic empowerment groups. The study will conduct formative research among women's economic empowerment group members, develop the Jenga Dada intervention, and conduct a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial to assess preliminary efficacy of the intervention on proximal outcomes (i.e., self-efficacy) and feasibility and acceptability.

Conditions

  • Reproductive Coercion
  • Intimate Partner Violence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Jenga Dada

Jenga Dada aims to empower women participating in community-based economic groups by training them to recognize inequality, challenge it, and work toward positive changes in their lives related to finances, health, and relationships and increase social support on these issues within the groups. Jenga Dada is expected to include eight modules: 1) overview of the intervention, 2) gender roles, 3) economic control and abuse, 4) intimate partner violence (IPV), 5) reproductive coercion (RC), 6) family planning (FP), 7) financial literacy, and 8) life goals. The Jenga Dada intervention is group discussion-based and draws on two effective interventions: ARCHES (a facility-based contraceptive counseling intervention providing support for RC and IPV) and Girls Invest (a mobile health application with integrated modules on gender, IPV, and financial literacy). The intervention will be facilitated by a local NGO in partnership with group leaders.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Population Council Kenya

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Women's Empowerment Link

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • San Diego State University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of California, San Diego

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jay G Silverman, PhD · University of California, San Diego

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-06-17
Primary Completion
2024-12-04
Completion
2024-12-04

Countries

  • Kenya

Study Locations

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