Evaluating the Hunger Project in Ghana | NCT00532753

Studies
Evaluating the Hunger Project in Ghana

NCT00532753

Sponsor

University of California, Berkeley

Status

Unknown status

Last Update Posted

Aug 4, 2008Estimated

Enrollment

20,000Estimated

Phase

Early Phase 1

Conditions

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

Interventions

Community Empowerment

Countries

Ghana

Protocol Section

Identification Module Status Module Sponsor/Collaborators Module Oversight Module Description Module Conditions Module Design Module Arms/Interventions Module Outcomes Module Eligibility Module Contacts/Locations Module References Module IPD Sharing Statement Module

Results Section

Participant Flow Module Baseline Characteristics Module Outcome Measures Module Adverse Events Module More Info Module

Annotation Section

Annotation Module

Document Section

Large Document Module

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module Condition Browse Module Intervention Browse Module

Protocol Section

Identification Module

NCT ID

Results Section

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Annotation Section

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Document Section

No data available

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Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module

Version Holder

Status Module

Record Verification Date

Jul 2008

Overall Recruitment Status or Expanded Access Status

Unknown status

Last Known Status

Recruiting

Delayed Posting

Not provided

Why Stopped

Not provided

Expanded Access Info

Start Date

Aug 2007

Primary Completion Date

Aug 2010

Completion Date

May 2016Estimated

First Submitted Date

Sep 18, 2007

First Submission Date that Met QC Criteria

Sep 18, 2007

First Posted Date

Sep 20, 2007Estimated

Results Waived

Not provided

Results First Submitted Date

Not provided

Results First Submitted that Met QC Criteria

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Results First Posted Date

Not provided

Certification/Extension (aka Delayed Results) First Submitted Date

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Certification/Extension First Submitted that Passed QC Review

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Certification/Extension First Posted Date

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Last Update Submitted Date

Jul 31, 2008

Last Update Posted Date

Aug 4, 2008Estimated

Name	Class
The Robertson Foundation	OTHER

Description Module

Brief Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Design Module

Study Type

Interventional

Number of References to an Expanded Access Study

Not provided

Expanded Access Types

Not provided

Patient Registry

Not provided

Target Follow-Up Duration

Not provided

Phases

Early Phase 1

Interventional Study Design

Allocation

Biospecimen

No data available

No data is available for this block.

Enrollment

20,000Estimated

Name	Type	Description	Arm Group Labels	Other Names
Community Empowerment	Behavioral

Outcomes Module

Primary Outcomes

Measure	Description	Time Frame
Increased sense of empowerment

Secondary Outcomes

Measure	Description	Time Frame
Increased health, education, and consumption outcomes and increase in the number of public goods

Other Outcomes

Not provided

Eligibility Module

Eligibility Criteria

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

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Not provided

Sex

All

Sex/Gender Based

Not provided

Sex/Gender Description

Not provided

Minimum Age

Not provided

Maximum Age

Not provided

Standard Ages

ChildAdultOlder Adult

Study Population

Not provided

Sampling Method

Not provided

Contacts/Locations Module

Central Contacts

Not provided

Overall Officials

Name	Affiliation	Role
David Levine, PhD Econ	University of California at Berkeley	Principal Investigator

Locations

Facility	Status	City	State	ZIP	Country	Contacts
Ghana Hunger Project	Recruiting	Several	Eastern Region		Ghana

Condition Browse Module

MeSH Terms

ID	Term
D000079102	Empowerment

Ancestor Terms

ID	Term
D012919	Social Behavior
D001519	Behavior

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