Trial reportTrials2013
Community resource centres to improve the health of women and children in Mumbai slums: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Trials, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Intersecting inequities: a systematic review of socio-cultural, economic, and legal determinants of violence against women and girls in Asia (ANULA project-WP1 Evidence Synthesis).BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Face-to-face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Community resource centres to improve the health of women and children in informal settlements in Mumbai: a cluster-randomised, controlled trial.The Lancet. Global health · 2017Trial
- Reconstructing communities in cluster trials?Trials · 2016Trial
- Participatory women's groups and counselling through home visits to improve child growth in rural eastern India: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2015Trial
- Urban Family Planning in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Critical Scoping Review.Frontiers in global women's health · 2021Article
- A theory of change for community interventions to prevent domestic violence against women and girls in Mumbai, India.Wellcome open research · 2019Article
- Review of Recent Methodological Developments in Group-Randomized Trials: Part 1-Design.American journal of public health · 2017Review
- Examining inequalities in uptake of maternal health care and choice of provider in underserved urban areas of Mumbai, India: a mixed methods study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2015Article
- Logistic, ethical, and political dimensions of stepped wedge trials: critical review and case studies.Trials · 2015Review
- Malnutrition and infant and young child feeding in informal settlements in Mumbai, India: findings from a census.Food science & nutrition · 2015Article
- Slum Definitions in Urban India: Implications for the Measurement of Health Inequalities.Population and development review · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundThe trial addresses the general question of whether community resource centers run by a non-government organization improve the health of women and children in slums. The resource centers will be run by the Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, and the trial will evaluate their effects on a series of public health indicators. Each resource center will be located in a vulnerable Mumbai slum area and will serve as a base for salaried community workers, supervised by officers and coordinators, to organize the collection and dissemination of health information, provision of services, home visits to identify and counsel families at risk, referral of individuals and families to appropriate services and support for their access, meetings of community members and providers, and events and campaigns on health issues. METHODS/
designA cluster randomized controlled trial in which 20 urban slum areas with resource centers are compared with 20 control areas. Each cluster will contain approximately 600 households and randomized allocation will be in three blocked phases, of 12, 12 and 16 clusters. Any resident of an intervention cluster will be able to participate in the intervention, but the resource centers will target women and children, particularly women of reproductive age and children under 5.The outcomes will be assessed through a household census after 2 years of resource center operations. The primary outcomes are unmet need for family planning in women aged 15 to 49 years, proportion of children under 5 years of age not fully immunized for their ages, and proportion of children under 5 years of age with weight for height less than 2 standard deviations below the median for age and sex. Secondary outcomes describe adolescent pregnancies, home deliveries, receipt of conditional cash transfers for institutional delivery, other childhood anthropometric indices, use of public sector health and nutrition services, indices of infant and young child feeding, and consultation for violence against women and children.
trial registrationISRCTN Register: ISRCTN56183183Clinical Trials Registry of India: CTRI/2012/09/003004.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.