Assessing the impact of a combined nutrition counselling and cash transfer intervention on women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh: A randomised control trial protocol
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Assessing the impact of a combined nutrition counselling and cash transfer intervention on women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh: A randomised control trial protocol. / Kirkwood, Elizabeth K; DIbley, Michael John; Hoddinott, John Frederick; Huda, Tanvir; Laba, Tracey Lea; Tahsina, Tazeen; Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi; Iqbal, Afrin; Khan, Jasmin; Ali, Nazia Binte; Ullah, Saad; Goodwin, Nicholas; Muthayya, Sumithra; Islam, Munirul; Ara, Gulshan; Agho, Kingsley Emwinyore; Arifeen, Shams El; Alam, Ashraful.
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T1 - Assessing the impact of a combined nutrition counselling and cash transfer intervention on women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh: A randomised control trial protocol
AU - Kirkwood, Elizabeth K
AU - DIbley, Michael John
AU - Hoddinott, John Frederick
AU - Huda, Tanvir
AU - Laba, Tracey Lea
AU - Tahsina, Tazeen
AU - Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi
AU - Iqbal, Afrin
AU - Khan, Jasmin
AU - Ali, Nazia Binte
AU - Ullah, Saad
AU - Goodwin, Nicholas
AU - Muthayya, Sumithra
AU - Islam, Munirul
AU - Ara, Gulshan
AU - Agho, Kingsley Emwinyore
AU - Arifeen, Shams El
AU - Alam, Ashraful
N1 - Publisher Copyright: ©
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Introduction: There is growing interest in assessing the impact of health interventions, particularly when women are the focus of the intervention, on women's empowerment. Globally, research has shown that interventions targeting nutrition, health and economic development can affect women's empowerment. Evidence suggests that women's empowerment is also an underlying determinant of nutrition outcomes. Depending on the focus of the intervention, different domains of women's empowerment will be influenced, for example, an increase in nutritional knowledge, or greater control over income and access to resources. Objective: This study evaluates the impact of the Shonjibon Cash and Counselling (SCC) Trial that combines nutrition counselling and an unconditional cash transfer, delivered on a mobile platform, on women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh. Methods and analysis: We will use a mixed-methods approach, combining statistical analysis of quantitative data from 2840 women in a cluster randomised controlled trial examining the impact of nutrition behaviour change communications (BCCs) and cash transfers on child undernutrition. Pregnant participants will be given a smartphone with a customised app, delivering nutrition BCC messages, and will receive nutrition counselling via a call centre and an unconditional cash transfer. This study is a component of the SCC Trial and will measure women's empowerment using a composite indicator based on the Project-Level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index, with quantitative data collection at baseline and endline. Thematic analysis of qualitative data, collected through longitudinal interviews with women, husbands and mothers-in-law, will elicit a local understanding of women's empowerment and the linkages between the intervention and women's empowerment outcomes. This paper describes the study protocol to evaluate women's empowerment in a nutrition-specific and sensitive intervention using internationally validated, innovative tools and will help fill the evidence gap on pathways of impact, highlighting areas to target for future programming. Ethics and dissemination: Ethical approval has been obtained from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (Ref. PR 17106) and The University of Sydney (Ref: 2019/840). Findings from this study will be shared in Bangladesh with dissemination sessions in-country and internationally at conferences, and will be published in peer-reviewed journals.
AB - Introduction: There is growing interest in assessing the impact of health interventions, particularly when women are the focus of the intervention, on women's empowerment. Globally, research has shown that interventions targeting nutrition, health and economic development can affect women's empowerment. Evidence suggests that women's empowerment is also an underlying determinant of nutrition outcomes. Depending on the focus of the intervention, different domains of women's empowerment will be influenced, for example, an increase in nutritional knowledge, or greater control over income and access to resources. Objective: This study evaluates the impact of the Shonjibon Cash and Counselling (SCC) Trial that combines nutrition counselling and an unconditional cash transfer, delivered on a mobile platform, on women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh. Methods and analysis: We will use a mixed-methods approach, combining statistical analysis of quantitative data from 2840 women in a cluster randomised controlled trial examining the impact of nutrition behaviour change communications (BCCs) and cash transfers on child undernutrition. Pregnant participants will be given a smartphone with a customised app, delivering nutrition BCC messages, and will receive nutrition counselling via a call centre and an unconditional cash transfer. This study is a component of the SCC Trial and will measure women's empowerment using a composite indicator based on the Project-Level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index, with quantitative data collection at baseline and endline. Thematic analysis of qualitative data, collected through longitudinal interviews with women, husbands and mothers-in-law, will elicit a local understanding of women's empowerment and the linkages between the intervention and women's empowerment outcomes. This paper describes the study protocol to evaluate women's empowerment in a nutrition-specific and sensitive intervention using internationally validated, innovative tools and will help fill the evidence gap on pathways of impact, highlighting areas to target for future programming. Ethics and dissemination: Ethical approval has been obtained from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (Ref. PR 17106) and The University of Sydney (Ref: 2019/840). Findings from this study will be shared in Bangladesh with dissemination sessions in-country and internationally at conferences, and will be published in peer-reviewed journals.
KW - Clinical trials
KW - Protocols & guidelines
KW - Public health
U2 - 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044263
DO - 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044263
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34108160
AN - SCOPUS:85107965771
VL - 11
JO - BMJ Open
JF - BMJ Open
SN - 2044-6055
IS - 6
M1 - e044261
ER -
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