Clinical trials: Livelihoods
Adolescent Behavior, Health Behavior
Exploring Enhanced HFP to Reduce Child Marriage in Bangladesh
Child marriage leads to pregnancy in adolescence, a root cause of both malnutrition and the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition.
- Conditions
- Adolescent Behavior, Health Behavior, Marriage Age
- Trial name
- NCT04758169
- Testing
- Enhanced Homestead Food Production, Control
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 1,200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Helen Keller International
Malnutrition, Anemia
Building Capacity for Sustainable Livelihoods and Health
Despite recent economic growth in Ghana, the prevalence of childhood malnutrition remains high. Wasting prevalence affected 29% among 6- to 8-months-old infants in 2008.
- Trial name
- NCT01985243
- Testing
- Nutrition and agriculture, Iron-rich food & business literacy
- Where
- 3 sites in Canada, Ghana
- Volunteers
- 3,390 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- McGill University
Financial Stress, Social Functioning
Livelihoods Intervention With Urban Refugee Youth in Kampala, Uganda
Displaced and refugee youth in Uganda are more vulnerable to health risks due to financial insecurity. As such, the investigators aim to explore the utility of an intervention aimed at improving livelihoods, called Creating…
- Conditions
- Financial Stress, Social Functioning, Social Skills
- Trial name
- NCT06270160
- Testing
- HIVST, mHealth, Creating Futures Livelihoods program
- Where
- Uganda
- Volunteers
- 432 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Toronto
Presbyopia Correction, Visual Impairment and Blindness (Excl Colour Blindness)
Effect of Presbyopia Correction on Livelihood and Repayment Among Solar Customers in Western Region, Kenya
With age, people lose the ability to see things that are near them clearly. This is known as presbyopia. Although this is a normal ageing process, it can be corrected with near vision eyeglasses - colloquially known as reading…
- Conditions
- Presbyopia Correction, Visual Impairment and Blindness (Excl Colour Blindness), Repayment Behaviour, Livelihoods
- Trial name
- NCT06774183
- Testing
- Near vision glasses for presbyopia correction
- Volunteers
- 1,085 people
- Sponsor
- Dot Glasses Kenya
Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder
SUCCEED Africa: Support, Comprehensive Care and Empowerment of People With Psychosocial Disabilities
Although psychotic disorders typically affect less than 1% of the population, they are a significant cause of disability worldwide.
- Conditions
- Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Schizotypal Disorder, Acute and Transient Psychotic Disorder
- Trial name
- SUCCEED (NCT06007105)
- Testing
- SUCCEED Community-Based Intervention
- Where
- 4 sites in Malawi, Nigeria and 2 more
- Volunteers
- 425 people
- Sponsor
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
HIV
Agricultural Intervention for Food Security and HIV Health Outcomes in Kenya
The purpose of this study is to determine whether this multisectoral agricultural and microcredit loan intervention improves food security, prevent antiretroviral treatment failure, and reduce co-morbidities among people living…
- Trial name
- Shamba R01 (NCT02815579)
- Where
- 16 sites in Kenya
- Volunteers
- 746 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), Malnutrition
Income Generation, Food and Nutrient Security for Improved Livelihoods and Health Outcomes Among HIV-Positive, Kenya
The goal of this trial is to evaluate whether cassava root and sesame seed granules combined with nutrition education can improve the nutritional status of HIV-seropositive adults.
- Trial name
- NCT07620197
- Testing
- Arm1 - Cassava root and (sesame) simsim seed granules, Nutrition education
- Where
- 2 sites in Kenya
- Volunteers
- 64 people
- Sponsor
- Maseno University
Physical Violence, Sexual Violence
Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Intervention Pilot
This is a shortened interrupted time series pilot evaluation over a twelve month period to evaluate whether the combined Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention can reduce men's perpetration of IPV and women's…
- Conditions
- Physical Violence, Sexual Violence, Livelihoods
- Trial name
- NCT03257176
- Testing
- Stepping Stones and Creating Futures
- Where
- South Africa
- Volunteers
- 232 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of KwaZulu
Presbyopia
Reading Glass on Livelihoods and Quality of Life in Rural Bangladesh
The issue of uncorrected Presbyopia is an emerging health and livelihoods problem in Bangladesh. Presbyopia is easily corrected with an appropriate pair of reading glasses.
- Trial name
- NCT03719196
- Testing
- Reading glass
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 824 people
- Sponsor
- Brac
Quantity and Variety of Vegetables Consumed
DELIVER Evaluation in Nigeria
The DEcent LIVelihoods for small-scale producers delivered through Economic \& Resilient food systems in Nigeria (DELIVER) (2024-2027) project is designed to address the low per capita consumption of vegetables and variety of…
- Trial name
- NCT06927674
- Testing
- Consumption of vegetables
- Where
- Nigeria
- Volunteers
- 1,568 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- RTI International
Domestic Violence, Depressive Symptoms
RCT of the Effectiveness of the WfWI Intervention in Afghanistan
This is an individually randomised control trial to assess the effectiveness of a livelihoods and social empowerment intervention, delivered by Women for Women International, on married women's experiences of intimate partner…
- Conditions
- Domestic Violence, Depressive Symptoms, Livelihoods
- Trial name
- NCT03236948
- Testing
- Women for Women International Intervention
- Volunteers
- 1,461 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical Research Council, South Africa
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), Earning Outcomes
Zithandani Stepping Stones and Creating Futures - Phase 2 Pilot
The goal of this uncontrolled intervention study is to assess whether Zithandani Stepping Stones and Creating Futures is feasible to deliver, acceptable for participants, safe for participants and to estimate effect sizes, in…
- Conditions
- Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), Earning Outcomes, Mental Health, Couple Communication
- Trial name
- NCT06975137
- Testing
- Zithandani Stepping Stones and Creating Futures
- Where
- South Africa
- Volunteers
- 104 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Exeter