The Sukhshanti Study: Effect of a Sanitation Intervention on Women's Health

Stress, Psychological Clinical Trial

Official title: The Sukhshanti Study: a Controlled Before-and-after Mixed Methods Study of the Effect of a Sanitation Intervention on Women's Health in Bihar, India

Status Terminated

Clinical Trial Summary

The study will measure the impact of sanitation access on women and girl's social and emotional health, behaviors, and quality of life in rural India before and after a sanitation intervention compared to a comparison group that will receive the same intervention at a later date.

Clinical Trial Description

This mixed-methods, quasi-experimental study will evaluate the extent to which the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) sanitation program in Bihar, India improves health and well-being among women and girls. Our study consists of a controlled before-and-after (CBA) study with an embedded ethnography.

Specific objectives are:

• Measure the effect of the GSF intervention on sanitation-related psychosocial stress (SRPS), generalized psychosocial stress (PSS), perceived quality of life, hair cortisol, and urogenital health among women between the ages of 14 and 65.

• Measure changes in sanitation adoption (e.g.: sanitation access and exclusive use) among individuals / households receiving the GSF intervention.

• Document individual and community experiences with sanitation, intervention participation, and latrine coverage through ethnographic methods. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stress, Psychological

• NCT number: NCT02739178
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Oklahoma
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2016
• Completion date: May 2018