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NCT07702916
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Effect of Hygiene and Menstrual Hygiene Interventions on Learning and Psychosocial Wellbeing in Madagascar

Sponsor: University of California Santa Cruz

View on ClinicalTrials.gov

Summary

A previous study in schools in rural Madagascar found that a bundle of hygiene-focused interventions substantially improved girls' learning outcomes. This study disentangles the effects of physical infrastructure (latrines, handwashing basins) from other intervention components (peer sensitization and free sanitary pad distribution) in a cluster-randomized trial across 140 secondary schools in the Amoron'i Mania region. The trial originally measured learning and psychosocial wellbeing outcomes and was prospectively registered with the AEA RCT Registry (AEARCTR-0014423). The study team is now also collecting secondary health biomarker outcomes (e.g., salivary cortisol and blood-based C-reactive protein) and is registering those health biomarker endpoints with ClinicalTrials.gov.

Official title: Disentangling the Effects of Infrastructure, Sensitization, and Sanitary Pad Distribution on Health, Learning, and Psychosocial Wellbeing Among Adolescent Girls in Rural Madagascar: A Cluster-Randomized Trial

Key Details

Gender

FEMALE

Age Range

11 Years - 21 Years

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

3080

Start Date

2024-10-01

Completion Date

2026-12

Last Updated

2026-07-14

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Peer leadership/sensitization + sanitary pads

Young Girl Leaders program, teacher sensitization, WASH competition, free sanitary pad vouchers

OTHER

School infrastructure

Construction of latrines and handwashing basins

Locations (1)

Laboratoire d'Analyses Médicales Malagasy

Antananarivo, Madagascar