Girls for Health: Empowering Rural Girls' Transition From School to Employment as Health Workers

• Sponsor: University of California, San Diego (Other)
• Overall Status: Withdrawn
• CT.gov ID: NCT02642549
• Collaborator: Center for Girls Education (Other)
• Enrollment: 0
• Locations: 2
• Arms: 2
• Actual Duration (Months): 23
• Patients Per Site: 0
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 0

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Girls for Health (G4H) will promote the economic empowerment, agency, and voice of rural adolescent girls by supporting their transition from secondary school to tertiary training in midwifery, medicine, nursing and other health careers, and in so doing, will address the acute shortage of female health workers in rural Northern Nigeria. G4H will integrate proven girls' education strategies with innovative vocational interventions to build 1350 girls' career aspirations and academic achievement and will significantly increase the number of rural girls entering health training institutions (HTI) in four northern states. The program will include: 1) a bridge program offering accelerated academic instruction in science, math and English; 2) vocational counseling and practicums at local health facilities; 3) safe spaces to enhance critical life skills; 4) four month science immersion courses for girls accepted for admission to a health training institution; and 5) HTI capacity building to cultivate a rural female-friendly learning environment. G4H will work towards sustainability from the start by using existing secondary school and HTI infrastructure, and feeding into government rural health worker employment schemes.

G4H will be evaluated using a rigorous cluster randomized controlled trial design, randomizing at the school level to assess its impact on key outcomes of interest that include rural girls' secondary school graduation and subsequent HTI enrollment, retention and completion, as well as delayed marriage and improved agency and voice. Process monitoring and costing analysis will be conducted to support quality implementation and dissemination efforts. The design will ensure that high quality evidence is available to guide the field regarding the effectiveness and costing of in-school bridge programming in broadening rural girls' participation in education and career opportunities in the context of low resource settings characterized by low rates of female participation in education and income generation.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Empowerment	Behavioral: Girls for Health	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 0 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Official Title: Girls for Health: Empowering Rural Girls' Transition From School to Employment as Health Workers
• Actual Study Start Date: Feb 1, 2017
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Jan 1, 2019
• Actual Study Completion Date: Jan 1, 2019

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Girls for Health Intervention (G4H) G4H will integrate proven girls' education strategies with innovative vocational interventions to build 1350 girls' career aspirations and academic achievement	Behavioral: Girls for Health; The G4H '1000 Hours' Bridge Program will offer English, science and math training, career workshops, opportunity to 'shadow' a health provider, a mentored safe space club to facilitate economic empowerment, training on gender equity and human rights, and communication/leadership skills. Cash transfers for vacations will be provided to support participation. Girls who receive 5 credits on their SSCE exams and pass the health training institute (HTI) entrance exam are eligible for admission. A Foundational Science Training (FST) program will be provided to the '1000 Hours' participants who gain admission to a HTI to strengthen their ability to the pass the HTI "weeding exams." The FST will focus on English, math and science training, and safe spaces for social support development.; Other Names: G4H
No Intervention: Control Condition standard of care to support school attendance among girls (i.e., school tracking of attendance and reaching out to truant girls).

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. completion of secondary school [within 1 year of enrollment]

   ascertained via self-report and secondary school records

2. participation in a HTI (health training institute) or other professional training program [within 1 year of enrollment]

   ascertained via self report and vocational school records

3. graduation from a HTI (health training institute) or other professional training program [within 2 years of enrollment]

   ascertained via self-report and vocational school records

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. delayed marriage [annual follow up over up to 2 years]

   ascertained via self report

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 15 Years to 22 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: Female
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

• enrolled in secondary school at selected study schools, in her final two years of secondary school

Exclusion Criteria:

• low attendance (<60%) at participating schools.

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Center for Girls Education	Zaria	Kaduna	Nigeria	810222
2	Federal University Birnin-Kebbi	Kalgo	Kebbi	Nigeria	810222

Sponsors and Collaborators

• University of California, San Diego
• Center for Girls Education

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: University of California, San Diego
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02642549
• Other Study ID Numbers: OPP1142975
• First Posted: Dec 30, 2015
• Last Update Posted: Aug 13, 2019
• Last Verified: Aug 1, 2019

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Aug 13, 2019