Evaluation of a Disability-Focused Sexual and Reproductive Health Curriculum for Health Students in Tanzania | NCT07772778 | Trialant

RecruitingInterventionalPhase 3Updated Aug 19, 2026

Evaluation of a Disability-Focused Sexual and Reproductive Health Curriculum for Health Students in Tanzania

Tanzabilities Aim 3: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Sexual and Reproductive Health Curriculum for Persons With Disabilities

Overview

Key facts that identify this study and show where it stands today.

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT07772778
Lead Sponsor: University of MinnesotaOTHER
Overall Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Phase: Phase 3
Enrollment: 412Estimated
Last Update Posted: Aug 19, 2026Actual
Start Date: Sep 3, 2026Estimated
Primary Completion Date: Dec 31, 2026Estimated
Completion Date: Sep 30, 2027Estimated

Description

What the study is about and why it is being run, in the researchers' own words.

Official Title: Tanzabilities Aim 3: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Sexual and Reproductive Health Curriculum for Persons With Disabilities
Brief Summary: This randomized controlled trial will evaluate the efficacy of a three-day sexual and reproductive health curriculum focused on persons with disabilities and tailored to the Tanzanian context.

The intervention will be delivered to medical, nursing, and midwifery students at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Participants will be randomized to either receive the curriculum during the initial intervention period or to a waitlist control group that will receive the curriculum approximately 12 months later.

Participants will complete surveys at baseline and at 3-month follow-up to assess changes in knowledge, attitudes, skills, comfort, and advocacy related to sexual and reproductive health care for persons with disabilities. Participants in the intervention group will also complete an immediate post-intervention survey after the three-day curriculum.

Conditions

The medical conditions and diseases this study investigates.

Sexual and Reproductive Health
Disability
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

The treatments and procedures being evaluated in this study.

Disability-Focused Sexual and Reproductive Health Curriculum

Participation

Who can join this study and the criteria used to decide.

Ages Eligible for Study: Adult (18-64)Older Adult (65+)
Sexes Eligible for Study: All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Current student at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in midwifery, nursing, or medicine

Able to attend the full 3-day training

Fluent in English and Kiswahili

Willing to complete all evaluation procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

Unable to attend all days of the seminar at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences

Expresses reservations about attending, including religious objections

Expresses fear of violence due to attending, including fear of violence from a spouse or relative

Prior exposure to the Training Health Professionals curriculum or either of the Tanzabilities pilots

Younger than 18 years of age

Unable to provide consent

Non-English speaker

Unable to read

Employee of the researcher

Prisoner

Design

How the study is designed and how its participant groups are organized.

Primary Purpose: Other
Allocation: Randomized
Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)

Contacts

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Marguerite HardmanContact

puchn011@umn.edu618-581-0502

Locations

Where the study is run and whether each site is currently recruiting.

Muhimbili University of Health and Allied SciencesRecruiting

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Collaborators

The organizations and people involved in this study.

Lead Sponsor: University of MinnesotaOTHER
Collaborators

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People with disabilities in Tanzania experience barriers to sexual and reproductive health care, and health professional students may receive limited training on disability-inclusive sexual and reproductive health care. This study will evaluate a curriculum designed to improve health professional students' knowledge, attitudes, skills, comfort, and advocacy related to providing sexual and reproductive health care for persons with disabilities.

This study is a randomized, controlled, open-label trial of a three-day sexual and reproductive health curriculum focused on persons with disabilities. The study will enroll 412 medical, nursing, and midwifery students from Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Participants will complete an appointment before the intervention to provide consent, complete a baseline survey, and be randomized. Randomization will be stratified by health profession. Participants will be randomized to either the intervention group or the waitlist control group.

The intervention consists of a three-day curriculum delivered by Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences faculty. The curriculum includes six modules: Introduction to Sexual Health for People with Disabilities; Sexual Health Across the Lifespan for People with Disabilities; Sexual Health Concerns for People with Disabilities; Assumptions and Stigma for People with Disabilities: Reducing Barriers to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care; Ethical and Legal Frameworks for People with Disabilities; and Sexual and Reproductive Health Communication with People with Disabilities. The curriculum includes lectures, videos, discussions, role plays, case studies, and case scenarios involving people with disabilities roleplaying as patients.

Participants assigned to the intervention group will receive the curriculum during the initial intervention period. Participants assigned to the waitlist control group will complete the baseline survey and 3-month follow-up survey at the same time as the intervention group and will receive the curriculum approximately 12 months later.

The primary outcomes are changes in knowledge, attitudes, and skills related to sexual and reproductive health care for persons with disabilities. Secondary outcomes include differences by health discipline and changes in advocacy tendencies related to sexual and reproductive health and disability. Survey data will be collected at baseline and 3-month follow-up, with an immediate post-intervention survey collected from the intervention group after completion of the curriculum.