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Trial Status
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completed
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on_going
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Trial End Date
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November 11, 2021
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November 11, 2023
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Last Published
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Before
August 12, 2022 11:12 AM
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After
August 12, 2022 11:25 AM
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Intervention (Public)
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Before
A total of about 200 women, of which 80-100 previously abducted and 100-120 never abducted, will take part of the study. We aim to scale up the study and involve more women in the future, conditional on the success of this initial investigation. In collaboration with local partners, our program will unfold in three phases. Phase 1 will consist of 10 half-day workshops in which the study participants, in groups of 16-20 women, will engage in a set of incentivized behavioral games and an extensive survey. The workshop will generate important baseline data that will be compared to endline data, which we will collect in 2021, six months after the completion of Phase1, during Phase 3 of the project. Phase 2 will consist of 12 by-monthly meetings, taking place between (tentatively) September and April, in which half of the study participants (30 formerly abductees and 45 never abducted women) will be invited to set, discuss and advise peers on achievable goals aimed at bettering their mutual conditions. These meetings will happen in groups of 5 women, under the guidance of a meeting facilitator. Phase 3 will follow the same methodology as Phase 1, i.e., it will consist of 9 workshops in which all the 150 women will participate in incentivized behavioral games and a survey.
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After
A total of about 200 women, of which 80-100 previously abducted and 100-120 never abducted, will take part of the study. We aim to scale up the study and involve more women in the future, conditional on the success of this initial investigation. In collaboration with local partners, our program will unfold in three phases. Phase 1 will consist of 10 half-day workshops in which the study participants, in groups of 16-20 women, will engage in a set of incentivized behavioral games and an extensive survey. The workshop will generate important baseline data that will be compared to endline data, which we will collect in 2021, six months after the completion of Phase1, during Phase 3 of the project. Phase 2 will consist of 12 by-monthly meetings, taking place between (tentatively) September and April, in which half of the study participants (30 formerly abductees and 45 never abducted women) will be invited to set, discuss and advise peers on achievable goals aimed at bettering their mutual conditions. These meetings will happen in groups of 5 women, under the guidance of a meeting facilitator. Phase 3 will follow the same methodology as Phase 1, i.e., it will consist of 9 workshops in which all the 150 women will participate in incentivized behavioral games and a survey.
August 2022 note: We secured more funding from The World Bank, allowing us to expand the sample size to 600 women, of which 300 formerly abducted and add mental health counseling to the treatments. When we pre-registered the pilot (before the baseline survey) we were planning to implement women support groups only - given the small sample size. We have now added: 1) group mental health counseling/therapy (150 women, i.e., 30 groups of 5 women) and 2) individual mental health counseling (150 women). This in addition to the support group treatment (150 women, i.e., 30 groups of 5 women). More funding will allow us to also collect hair samples just before the RCT and at endline (provided local cultural conditions permit).
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Primary Outcomes (End Points)
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Before
Behavioral outcomes: grit, risk, prosociality, competitiveness, cognitive skills
Intervention outcomes: goals achieved, social capital, wellbeing, economic outcomes, hopes and aspitation (education, income, life)
Psychological wellbeing: depression
Social support: instrumental, informational, and emotional social capital
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After
Behavioral outcomes: grit, risk, prosociality, competitiveness, cognitive skills
Intervention outcomes: goals achieved, social capital, wellbeing, economic outcomes, hopes and aspitation (education, income, life)
Psychological wellbeing: depression, stress
Social support: instrumental, informational, and emotional social capital
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Randomization Method
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At the end of all initial workshops, a lottery will be help by randomization via computer by field manager to randomly assign which participants will continue to the group meetings stage of the experiment.
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After
At the end of all initial workshops and six-months group intervention, a lottery will be help by randomization via computer by field manager to randomly assign which participants will continue to the group meetings stage of the experiment.
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Randomization Unit
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No
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Individual level and group level (5-6 women in each).
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Planned Number of Clusters
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No
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600
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Planned Number of Observations
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Before
This is a behavioral study planned for a total of roughly 200 women.
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This is a behavioral study planned for a total of roughly 600 women.
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Power calculation: Minimum Detectable Effect Size for Main Outcomes
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Before
Power calculation. Due to natural constraints and logistical necessities (i.e., the limiting factor availability of formerly abducted women) we will be able to enroll in the project 100 FA women (treatment group) and 100 NFA women (control group). Based on parameters from our previous studies on individual choice competitiveness and prosociality experiments among victimized and not victimized subjects in Bosnia and Sierra Leone, the minimum detectable effect size to reach the significance level of 5%, power of 80% (with a control mean of about 0.35, std1=0.48, std2=0.50) will be about 0.195.
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After
Power calculation. Due to natural constraints and logistical necessities (i.e., the limiting factor availability of formerly abducted women) we will be now able to enroll in the project 300 FA women (treatment group) and 300 NFA women (control group). Based on parameters from our previous studies on individual choice competitiveness and prosociality experiments among victimized and not victimized subjects in Bosnia and Sierra Leone, with 300 subjects the minimum detectable effect size to reach the significance level of 5%, power of 80% (with a control mean of about 0.35, std1=0.48, std2=0.50) will be about 0.195. We will now have 600, so power will increase.
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Intervention (Hidden)
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Before
A total of about 200 women, of which 80-100 previously abducted and 100-120 never abducted, will take part of the study. We aim to scale up the study and involve more women in the future, conditional on the success of this initial investigation. In collaboration with local partners, our program will unfold in three phases. Phase 1 will consist of 10 half-day workshops in which the study participants, in groups of 16-20 women, will engage in a set of incentivized behavioral games and an extensive survey. The workshop will generate important baseline data that will be compared to endline data, which we will collect in 2021, six months after the completion of Phase1, during Phase 3 of the project. Phase 2 will consist of 12 by-monthly meetings, taking place between (tentatively) September and April, in which half of the study participants (30 formerly abductees and 45 never abducted women) will be invited to set, discuss and advise peers on achievable goals aimed at bettering their mutual conditions. These meetings will happen in groups of 5 women, under the guidance of a meeting facilitator. Phase 3 will follow the same methodology as Phase 1, i.e., it will consist of 9 workshops in which all the 150 women will participate in incentivized behavioral games and a survey.
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After
A total of about 200 women, of which 80-100 previously abducted and 100-120 never abducted, will take part of the study. We aim to scale up the study and involve more women in the future, conditional on the success of this initial investigation. In collaboration with local partners, our program will unfold in three phases. Phase 1 will consist of 10 half-day workshops in which the study participants, in groups of 16-20 women, will engage in a set of incentivized behavioral games and an extensive survey. The workshop will generate important baseline data that will be compared to endline data, which we will collect in 2021, six months after the completion of Phase1, during Phase 3 of the project. Phase 2 will consist of 12 by-monthly meetings, taking place between (tentatively) September and April, in which half of the study participants (30 formerly abductees and 45 never abducted women) will be invited to set, discuss and advise peers on achievable goals aimed at bettering their mutual conditions. These meetings will happen in groups of 5 women, under the guidance of a meeting facilitator. Phase 3 will follow the same methodology as Phase 1, i.e., it will consist of 9 workshops in which all the 150 women will participate in incentivized behavioral games and a survey.
August 2022 note: We secured more funding from The World Bank, allowing us to expand the sample size to 600 women, of which 300 formerly abducted and add mental health counseling to the treatments. When we pre-registered the pilot (before the baseline survey) we were planning to implement women support groups only - given the small sample size. We have now added: 1) group mental health counseling/therapy (150 women, i.e., 30 groups of 5 women) and 2) individual mental health counseling (150 women). This in addition to the support group treatment (150 women, i.e., 30 groups of 5 women). More funding will allow us to also collect hair samples just before the RCT and at endline (provided local cultural conditions permit).
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Secondary Outcomes (Explanation)
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Before
Stress reactions: from 16 questions in the survey to be compiled in: fight, flight, tend, befriend categories.
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After
Stress reactions: from 16 questions in the survey to be compiled in: fight, flight, tend, befriend categories.
Stress from hair samples (if the cultural conditions in the field will allow us to sample).
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