Micro-costing analysis of a combination intervention for improved mental health and HIV risk behaviors among school-going adolescent girls in Uganda.

ABSTRACT: Suubi4Her is a combination intervention that integrates a savings-led family-based economic empowerment intervention through youth development accounts with a family strengthening intervention delivered via multiple family groups. It aims to improve mental health and reduce HIV risk behaviors among school-going adolescent girls in Uganda. This micro-costing study was conducted as part of a three-armed randomized control trial between 2017-2022, involving 1,260 participants aged 14-17 years across 47 secondary schools. Adopting a provider perspective, we prospectively identified, measured, and computed the costs associated with all program activities. These costs were then aggregated and divided by the actual number of adolescent girls in each study arm to conservatively obtain the per-adol

SUBMITTER: Tozan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12499882 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature