Increasing Adoption of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in Urban Settings: A Randomised Control Trial from Lahore, Pakistan

Last registered on August 12, 2024
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General Information

Title
Increasing Adoption of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in Urban Settings: A Randomised Control Trial from Lahore, Pakistan
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0014124
Initial registration date
August 04, 2024

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
August 12, 2024, 12:21 AM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Last updated
August 12, 2024, 3:29 AM EDT

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Locations

Country
Pakistan
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Maha Rehman
Affiliation
Cornell University
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Additional Trial Information

Status
Completed
Start date
2021-05-15
End date
2021-09-30
Keywords
Behavior
Additional Keywords
JEL code(s)
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial is based on or builds upon one or more prior RCTs.
Abstract
Lahore, a vibrant urban centre, home to 15 million residents, was driving a large percentage of COVID cases in Punjab and hence it was imperative that the transmission in Lahore was contained. Evidence established the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce transmission but most of the existing experimental and non-experimental literature was coming from rural South Asia. In collaboration with Lahore Divisional Government, an innovative intervention, adapted from rural trials conducted in Bangladesh, was tested and rolled out to increase mask wearing as the city awaited its vaccine supplies. The intervention had a dual focus: It increased access to information and the product itself i.e. masks and secondly it increased the salience of the messaging in urban areas again by a dual deployment of mobile and permanent messaging nodes in the treatment areas.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Rehman, Maha. 2024. "Increasing Adoption of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in Urban Settings: A Randomised Control Trial from Lahore, Pakistan." AEA RCT Registry. August 12. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.14124-1.2
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2021-05-15
Intervention End Date
2021-09-30

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Mask Wearing Rate
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Multi-Pronged Intervention Adapted from Rural Trials Conducted in Bangladesh. (Abaluck, 2021)
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Randomization done in office by a computer,
Randomization Unit
Sub-Division
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
30
Sample size: planned number of observations
30
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
30
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
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Analysis Plan

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

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