Evaluating the Hunger Project in Ghana
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.
Study Design
Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention
Conditions
To Better Understand How Epicenter's (Which House Education, Health and Finance Centers in Ghana) Increase Individual's Sense of Empowerment.
Intervention
Community Empowerment
Location
Ghana Hunger Project
Several
Eastern
Ghana
Status
Recruiting
Source
University of California, Berkeley
Results (where available)
Links
- Source: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00532753
- Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on July 15, 2010
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