Clinical Trial: Effect of Hygiene and Menstrual Hygiene Interventions on Learning and Psychosocial Wellbeing in Madagascar

U.S., July 15 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07702916) titled 'Effect of Hygiene and Menstrual Hygiene Interventions on Learning and Psychosocial Wellbeing in Madagascar' on July 01.

Brief Summary: A previous study in schools in rural Madagascar found that a bundle of hygiene-focused interventions substantially improved girls' learning outcomes. This study disentangles the effects of physical infrastructure (latrines, handwashing basins) from other intervention components (peer sensitization and free sanitary pad distribution) in a cluster-randomized trial across 140 secondary schools in the Amoron'i Mania region. The trial originally measured learning and psychosocial wellbeing outcomes and wa...