U.S., April 9 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06916377) titled 'The Economics of Domestic Violence: Evidence From Bangladesh' on March 31.
Brief Summary: This project aims to test the scalability and cost-effectiveness of edutainment-soap operas designed to challenge harmful social norms and promote resilience-as a strategy to improve mental health and reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural Bangladesh. Investigators will run a clustered randomized control trial in which villages will be randomized to one of three versions of the same soap opera: (i) Norms: Challenges harmful norms that condone IPV, targeting the belief that violence is an acceptable way to assert control or maintain rep...