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Evaluating the impact of providing sanitary pads and menstrual health sensitisation on the overall scholastic performance of teenage girls & sensitivity index for high school boys.
This study investigates the impact of providing sanitary pads in schools on the overall scholastic performance of schoolgirls. A sample of boys is also studied in the same school to see what's their response to sensitisation programs on menstrual health. There are two intervention groups and one control group. The first intervention group is a school which receives NGO sponsored sanitary pads in its ladies' room. The second intervention group not only receives the sanitary pads, but regular menstrual health sensitisation camps are also conducted there. Each group is a distinct low-income school of Delhi-NCR. We're trying to investigate if such interventions will help improve scholastic performance indicators like attendance, grades, ECA participation, and self-esteem in teenage schoolgirls. We're also trying to see if such camps are successful in sensitising boys.
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Citation
Gadre, Animesh, Angira Shukla and Mrinal Tomar. 2021. "Evaluating the impact of providing sanitary pads and menstrual health sensitisation on the overall scholastic performance of teenage girls & sensitivity index for high school boys.." AEA RCT Registry. January 13. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.5184-1.5.
There are two intervention groups and one control group.
Control group- School 1- studied status quo
Intervention Group 1- School 2- a school which receives NGO sponsored sanitary pads in its ladies' room. Intervention group 2- School 3- not only receives the sanitary pads, but regular menstrual health sensitisation camps are also conducted there.
Intervention Start Date
2019-10-12
Intervention End Date
2020-03-28
Primary Outcomes (end points)
For schoolgirls- attendance, cumulative grade average, ECA participation rate, self-esteem index
Primary Outcomes (explanation)
Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)
Experimental Design
There are two intervention groups and one control group. The first intervention group is a school which receives NGO sponsored sanitary pads in its ladies' room. The second intervention group not only receives the sanitary pads, but regular menstrual health sensitisation camps are also conducted there. Each group is a distinct low-income school of Delhi-NCR. We're trying to investigate if such interventions will help improve scholastic performance indicators like attendance, grades, ECA participation, and self-esteem in teenage schoolgirls. We're also trying to see if such camps are successful in sensitising boys.
Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
Multistage random sampling to locate schools.
FIshbowl draw to select sample within school.
Randomization Unit
Level 1- Schools
Level 2- Individuals
Was the treatment clustered?
No
Sample size: planned number of clusters
3 schools
100 girls from each school and 100 boys from each school were randomly selected.
Sample size: planned number of observations
600 students.
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
3 schools
100 girls from each school and 100 boys from each school were randomly selected.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
A proposal that lays out the details of this project and the motivation behind it. The sample size was changed later and hence is not correct in this version of the document.
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization)
3 schools
Was attrition correlated with treatment status?
No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations
750 male students
750 female students
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms
Each school - 50 schoolgirls control, 50 schoolgirls vending machine, 50 schoolgirls vending machine and menstrual health education.
Each school - 100 schoolboys control, 50 schoolboys menstrual health sensitisation.