Trial reportPloS one2016
Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation of a Gender Equity and Family Planning Intervention for Married Men and Couples in Rural India.
Trial report in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 69 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Gender Equity-Focused, Male-Centered Family Planning for Rural India
Enhancing Male Participation in Interventions to Prevent Unintended Pregnancy
Who cites it
69 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 129 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of Father-Focused Interventions to Prevent or Reduce Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy and Early Parenthood: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2025Pooled it
- Integrated domestic violence and reproductive health interventions in India: a systematic review.Reproductive health · 2024Pooled it
- Effective strategies for increasing the uptake of modern methods of family planning in South Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC women's health · 2024Pooled it
- Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Interventions at Structural, Community, Interpersonal, Individual, and Multiple Levels.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Pooled it
- Psychosocial interventions for intimate partner violence in low and middle income countries: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.Journal of global health · 2020Pooled it
- A systematic review of sexual and reproductive health interventions for young people in humanitarian and lower-and-middle-income country settings.BMC public health · 2020Pooled it
- Community-based maternal and newborn educational care packages for improving neonatal health and survival in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions for reducing and/or controlling domestic violence among pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
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- Theory-based interventions for contraception.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
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- Use of community-based interventions to promote family planning use among pastoralist women in Ethiopia: cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC women's health · 2021Trial
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- Associations of spousal communication with contraceptive method use among adolescent wives and their husbands in Niger.PloS one · 2020Trial
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- Longitudinal associations of intimate partner violence attitudes and perpetration: Dyadic couples data from a randomized controlled trial in rural India.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2017Trial
- Contraceptive uptake after training community health workers in couples counseling: A cluster randomized trial.PloS one · 2017Trial
- Intervening infant and young child feeding among Indian tribes - a scoping review.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Examining fertility preferences and spousal communication on contraceptive uptake among postpartum mothers in selected facilities in Abuja, Nigeria.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2026Article
- Exploring influence and knowledge on family planning among internally displaced men: a qualitative exploration of attitudes, norms and beliefs in Twic, South Sudan.Conflict and health · 2026Article
9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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10 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundDespite ongoing recommendations to increase male engagement and gender-equity (GE) counseling in family planning (FP) services, few such programs have been implemented and rigorously evaluated. This study evaluates the impact of CHARM, a three-session GE+FP counseling intervention delivered by male health care providers to married men, alone (sessions 1&2) and with their wives (session 3) in India. METHODS AND
findingsA two-armed cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted with young married couples (N = 1081 couples) recruited from 50 geographic clusters (25 clusters randomized to CHARM and a control condition, respectively) in rural Maharashtra, India. Couples were surveyed on demographics, contraceptive behaviors, and intimate partner violence (IPV) attitudes and behaviors at baseline and 9 &18-month follow-ups, with pregnancy testing at baseline and 18-month follow-up. Outcome effects on contraceptive use and incident pregnancy, and secondarily, on contraceptive communication and men's IPV attitudes and behaviors, were assessed using logistic generalized linear mixed models. Most men recruited from CHARM communities (91.3%) received at least one CHARM intervention session; 52.5% received the couple's session with their wife. Findings document that women from the CHARM condition, relative to controls, were more likely to report contraceptive communication at 9-month follow-up (AOR = 1.77, p = 0.04) and modern contraceptive use at 9 and 18-month follow-ups (AORs = 1.57-1.58, p = 0.05), and they were less likely to report sexual IPV at 18-month follow-up (AOR = 0.48, p = 0.01). Men in the CHARM condition were less likely than those in the control clusters to report attitudes accepting of sexual IPV at 9-month (AOR = 0.64, p = 0.03) and 18-month (AOR = 0.51, p = 0.004) follow-up, and attitudes accepting of physical IPV at 18-month follow-up (AOR = 0.64, p = 0.02). No significant effect on pregnancy was seen.
conclusionsFindings demonstrate that men can be engaged in FP programming in rural India, and that such an approach inclusive of GE counseling can improve contraceptive practices and reduce sexual IPV in married couples.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT01593943.
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