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What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls in Madagascar

NCT06598553 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 4500

Last updated 2025-11-18

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Summary

The study will evaluate a comprehensive sexual education program (CSE) delivered by Projet Jeune Leader (PJL), a women-led non-governmental program in Madagascar. The study will randomize 50 rural middle schools (grades 6-9), to either intervention (n=25) and control (n=25) schools. The CSE program will be implemented in the 25 intervention middle schools over the course of the school year (Sept-May) by trained PJL educators. Trained research assistants will conduct individual surveys at the beginning of the school year (baseline) and at the end of the school year (endline) with all students (ages 10-older) in both intervention and control schools. All student must have parental permission and provide informed consent to participate in the study, The surveys will include questions on demographics (e.g. age, sex/gender, grade, living situation), self-efficacy, bullying, physical abuse/violence, sexual harassment, sexual abuse and violence, harsh discipline at school and at home, gender/social norms, mental health and sexual and reproductive health. Teachers/school directors will also participate in the surveys, completing surveys at the beginning and end of the school year. The teacher/directors surveys will focus on health and safety of the students and school environment. In addition to the surveys, trained research assistants will conduct midline and endline qualitative interviews with a subsample of students, teachers and directors in the intervention schools to further explore the CSE intervention and impact on health and safety for students and teachers/directors.

Conditions

  • Comprehensive Sexual Education

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Projet Jeune Leader Comprehensive Sexual Education

PJL provides trained educators to deliver a 22 week comprehensive sexual education (CSE) curriculum in participating middle schools. All adolescents enrolled in the school receive the CSE program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Projet Jeune Leader

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth Development Office

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Johns Hopkins University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nancy Glass, PhD, MPH · Johns Hopkins University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-09-27
Primary Completion
2026-10-01
Completion
2027-10-01

Countries

  • Madagascar

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