Cost-effectiveness analysis of an intimate partner violence prevention intervention targeting men, women and couples in rural Ethiopia: evidence from the Unite for a Better Life randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with adverse health and psychosocial outcomes for women. However, rigorous economic evaluations of interventions targeting IPV prevention are rare. This paper analyses the cost-effectiveness of Unite for a Better Life (UBL), a gender-transformative intervention designed to prevent IPV and HIV risk behaviours among men, women and couples.

Design

We use an economic evaluation nested within a large-scale cluster randomised controlled trial, analysing financial and economic costs tracked contemporaneously.

Setting

UBL was implemented in rural southern Ethiopia between 2013 and 2015.

Participants

The randomised controlled trial included 6770 households in 64 villages.

Interventions

UBL is

SUBMITTER: Leight J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8009224 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature