Gender Equity-focused, Male-centered Family Planning for Rural India (ICPSR 35856)

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Anita Raj, University of California-San Diego

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The study involves development and testing of the Counseling Husbands to Achieve Reproductive health and Marital equity (CHARM) Program. In Phase 1, the project conducts in-depth interviews with rural young husbands (N=30), rural young wives (N=20), and health care providers (N=12), as well as focus groups with mothers of rural young husbands (N=40). Phase 2 involves development and pilot testing of CHARM protocols and training of volunteer health professionals (VHPs) for their role in the intervention trial. In Phase 3, villages (N=50) are randomized to receive either CHARM or the control program (standard FP referral to government public health centers [PHCs] located outside of villages), to assess treatment impact on spacing contraceptive use, pregnancy, and unmet family planning needs. Intervention effects are assessed via behavioral surveys collected on hand-held computers (PDAs) with rural young husbands (18-30 years) and their wives (N=1500 couples, 30 couples per village) at baseline and 6, 12, and 18 month follow-up, as well as pregnancy tests from wives, conducted at baseline and 18 month follow-up.

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United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1R01HD061115)

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children family planning gender husbands rural areas wives

Geographic Coverage View help for Geographic Coverage

India

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NICHD funded the PRIMARY DATA COLLECTION of this project.
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