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

Empowerment Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02642549
• Other study ID #: OPP1142975
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: August 2019
• Source: University of California, San Diego
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: January 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 15 Years to 22 Years

Eligibility

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.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Empowerment

Intervention

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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Nigeria	Federal University Birnin-Kebbi	Kalgo	Kebbi
Nigeria	Center for Girls Education	Zaria	Kaduna

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, San Diego	Center for Girls Education

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Nigeria, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	completion of secondary school	ascertained via self-report and secondary school records	within 1 year of enrollment
Primary	participation in a HTI (health training institute) or other professional training program	ascertained via self report and vocational school records	within 1 year of enrollment
Primary	graduation from a HTI (health training institute) or other professional training program	ascertained via self-report and vocational school records	within 2 years of enrollment
Secondary	delayed marriage	ascertained via self report	annual follow up over up to 2 years