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. 2023 Oct 24;2023(10):CD014722. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD014722.pub2

Daruwalla 2019.

Study name Community interventions to prevent violence against women and girls in informal settlements in Mumbai: the SNEHA‐TARA pragmatic cluster‐randomized controlled trial
Methods Study design: cluster‐RCT
Country: India
Participants Women, men, and adolescents
Inclusion criteria: 
a. any resident of an intervention cluster may participate in the intervention;
b. women, men, and adolescents who will be eligible to participate in group activities, and women who will be eligible to volunteer as sanginis.
Exclusion criteria:
not reported
Stated purpose: testing the effects of community mobilisation through groups and volunteers in a parallel‐group, phased, cluster‐randomized controlled pragmatic superiority trial, with 1:1 allocation to intervention and control in a total 48 urban informal settlement clusters
Interventions Intervention:
SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action) programme on Prevention of Violence against Women and Children
Unrestricted access to services provided by the implementing organization: crisis intervention, counselling, police liaison, medical attention, mental health intervention, family interventions, and legal recourse. In addition, participants will receive community mobilization activities with groups of women, men and adolescents, and with individual women volunteers.
Control:
Unrestricted access to services provided by the implementing organisation: crisis intervention, counselling, police liaison, medical attention, mental health intervention, family interventions, and legal recourse
Outcomes Participants'outcomes of interest for this review

  1. Diagnosis of mental disorders (anxiety) – Generalized Anxiety Disorder, 7 item questionnaire (GAD‐7)

  2. Diagnosis of mental disorders (depression) – Patient Health Questionnaire, 9‐item (PHQ‐9)

  3. Quality of life (subjective wellbeing) – Short Warwick‐Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (SWEMWBS)


Carers' outcomes of interest for this review
Nil
Economic outcomes
Nil
Time points: baseline, post‐intervention
Starting date 2017/2018
Contact information David Osrin, email: d.osrin@ucl.ac.uk
Notes Source of funding: Wellcome Trust funded the study (206417/Z/17/Z)
Prospective trial registration number: Controlled Trials Registry of India, CTRI/2018/02/012047; ISRCTN, ISRCTN84502355