Assessing the effect of the Samata intervention on factors hypothesised to be on the pathway to child marriage and school drop-out: results from a cluster-randomised trial in rural north Karnataka, India

• Main Authors: Tara S Beattie (Author), Ravi Prakash (Author), Prakash Javalkar (Author), Martine Collumbien (Author), Satyanarayana Ramanaik (Author), Raghavendra Thalinja (Author), Srikanta Murthy (Author), Calum Davey (Author), Stephen Moses (Author), Lori Heise (Author), Charlotte Watts (Author), Shajy Isac (Author), Mitzy Gafos (Author), Parinita Bhattacharjee (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Inishmore Laser Scientific Publishing Ltd, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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# Background We implemented a comprehensive intervention (Samata) to address school drop-out and child marriage among rural, marginalised adolescent girls in north Karnataka, south India. Here, we investigate (i) the impact of the intervention on factors hypothesised at baseline to be on the pathway...