Evaluating the Hunger Project in Ghana

To Better Understand How Epicenter's (Which House Education, Health and Finance Centers in Ghana) Increase Individual's Sense of Empowerment. Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluating the Hunger Project's Scaling-up of Epicenter Strategy in Ghana

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00532753
• Other study ID #: CPHS Protocol #2007-4-42
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 0
• First received: September 18, 2007
• Last updated: July 31, 2008
• Start date: August 2007
• Est. completion date: May 2016

Study information

• Verified date: July 2008
• Source: University of California, Berkeley
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The Hunger Project/Epicenter strategy is a community based development strategy that will positively affect health, education, empowerment, and consumption.

Description:

The investigators propose a randomized controlled design that will measure how The Hunger Projects' intervention affects the lives of Ghanaians. A pre-intervention baseline survey of approximately 4,000 households with over 20,000 individuals and two follow-up surveys of the same households will be conducted over the ten year experimental period.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 20000
• Est. completion date: May 2016
• Est. primary completion date: August 2010
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• The subject population will be individuals and households from communities in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Only exclusion criteria is that households outside of the Eastern region of Ghana will not be surveyed

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• To Better Understand How Epicenter's (Which House Education, Health and Finance Centers in Ghana) Increase Individual's Sense of Empowerment.

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Community Empowerment

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Ghana	Ghana Hunger Project	Several	Eastern

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, Berkeley	The Robertson Foundation

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Ghana, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Increased sense of empowerment
Secondary	Increased health, education, and consumption outcomes and increase in the number of public goods