Fostering gender equality and reproductive and sexual health among adolescents: results from a quasi-experimental study in Northern Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the impact of the Gender Roles, Equality and Transformations (GREAT) intervention: a narrative-based, resource-light, life-stage tailored intervention package designed to promote gender-equitable attitudes and behaviours, and improve sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV) outcomes among adolescents and their communities.

Design

Repeated cross-sectional evaluation study, using propensity score matching combined with difference-in-difference estimation.

Setting

Two postconflict communities in Lira and Amuru districts in Northern Uganda.

Participants

Male and female unmarried adolescents (10-14 years, 15-19 years), married adolescents (15-19 years) and adults (over the age of 19 years) were selected using a stratif

SUBMITTER: Dagadu NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8943764 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature