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Trial End Date
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September 30, 2023
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December 31, 2023
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Last Published
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May 23, 2022 05:20 PM
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May 31, 2022 05:47 PM
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Intervention (Public)
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This project consists of a planned impact evaluation of a new type of health information campaign that will be conducted in a randomly selected set of villages in two regions of Guinea-Bissau. This health campaign is innovative in its approach to incorporating and addressing traditional spiritual beliefs, which are widely held within communities in Guinea-Bissau and are common around the world (Singh, 2021).
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Primary Outcomes (End Points)
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Our key outcomes can be divided into two categories: 1) Health knowledge and 2) Heath behaviors.
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Our key outcomes can be divided into four categories: 1) knowledge, 2) attitudes, 3) behavior, and 4) health.
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Randomization Method
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Stratified randomization is done using Stata.
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Stratified randomization is done using Stata. See attached analysis plan for more details.
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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60 villages assigned to T0 (Control)
60 villages assigned to T1 (Standard health campaigns)
60 villages assigned to T2 (Novel health campaigns)
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60 villages assigned to T0 (Control)
60 villages assigned to T1 (Standard campaign)
60 villages assigned to T2 (Beliefs campaign)
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Intervention (Hidden)
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These novel campaigns involve traditional beliefs through the direct incorporation of a traditional health practitioner in the campaigns. Joined by a modern health practitioner, the two practitioners will provide detailed health information on maternal and child health.
To benchmark the impact of these novel health campaigns, the project will also monitor the impact of a standard health campaign on a randomly selected group of villages. These standard campaigns are identical to the novel campaigns, except for two differences. First, the standard campaigns will only involve two modern health practitioners. Second, the standard campaigns will not incorporate traditional beliefs into the structured presentations.
To further benchmark the impact of these two types of campaigns, we also study a third set of villages. This set of villages will not receive any campaign or other visit. It will serve as the control group.
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