MAISHA Cluster Randomised Trial - Primary Analysis Dataset
The MAISHA study (component A) is a mixed methods evaluation, including a cluster randomised trial, of a small group based social empowerment intervention to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in Mwanza city, Tanzania. The trial was conducted among women already participating in a group-based microfinance scheme, with the microfinance group being the unit of randomisation and (in the intervention arm) the unit of intervention delivery.
The CRT involved two surveys of trial participants, the first conducted prior to randomisation (baseline), and the second 29 months later (follow-up). The surveys collected data on demographics, childhood experiences of abuse, health, attitudes and norms relating to gender and IPV, relationships, IPV experiences and responses, children, and respondents' interactions with their communities.
This dataset underlies the primary trial analysis of intervention impact. It comprises 1,049 records (each pertaining to an individual trial participant), and contains a subset of variables from the baseline and follow-up surveys. NB: Data pertaining to a second trial of the same MAISHA intervention conducted among women not receiving microfinance (MAISHA component B) are not included in this record.
Additional Information
This dataset is subject to ethical and legal restrictions associated with the original study, which prevent it being made open available. Access may be provided to anonymised data for use in ethically approved research on condition it complies with the consent conditions. The applicant institution will be required to sign a Data Transfer Agreement prior to being provided with data. Publications and presentations arising from use of the data should include the following disclaimer: "The author(s) is/are not part of the MAISHA study team and had no part in the design or conduct of the MAISHA study. The data analysis presented here was conducted by the author(s) independently from the MAISHA study team, and the inferences, views and opinions expressed represent those of the author(s) alone. The MAISHA team have had no role in this analysis, or the writing of this paper. The paper has not been read or approved by any member of the MAISHA study team prior to publication."
Keywords
Intimate partner violence, Violence against women, Violence prevention, Cluster randomised trial, Tanzania, InterventionsItem Type | Dataset |
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Description of data capture | The questionnaires (baseline and follow-up) were developed in English, translated into Swahili, and independently back-translated into English for validation. The violence questions were adapted from the WHO Violence Against Women instrument, which has also been widely used in demographic and health surveys and other prevention intervention trials of intimate partner violence. Interviews were done face-to-face, in private, by female interviewers trained in interviewing techniques, gender issues, violence and ethical issues related to research on intimate partner violence. Responses were entered directly onto electronic tablets. |
Capture method | Interview: Face-to-face - CAPI |
Collection Period |
From To September 2014 January 2018 |
Date | 9 June 2020 |
Language(s) of written materials | English, Swahili |
Creator(s) |
Abramsky, T |
Associated roles | Kapiga, S (Principal Investigator), Lees, S (Principal Investigator), Watts, C (Principal Investigator), Mshana, G (Principal Investigator), Harvey, S (Principal Investigator), Hashim, R (Data Manager), Kapinga, I (Project Member), Madaha, F (Data Collector), Mtolela, G (Data Collector) and Abramsky, T (Researcher) |
LSHTM Faculty/Department |
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health Faculty of Public Health and Policy > Dept of Global Health and Development |
Research Centre |
Centre for Evaluation Gender Violence and Health Centre STRIVE SaME Modelling & Economics |
Participating Institutions | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Mwanza, Tanzania |
Funders |
Project Funder Grant Number Funder URI MAISHA study PO5244 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002992 |
Date Deposited | 07 Jul 2020 11:38 |
Last Modified | 25 Jun 2025 17:31 |
Publisher | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
Explore Further
- A cluster randomized controlled trial to assess the impact on intimate partner violence of a 10-session participatory gender training curriculum delivered to women taking part in a group-based microfinance loan scheme in Tanzania (MAISHA CRT01): study pro (Paper)
- A social empowerment intervention to prevent intimate partner violence against women in a microfinance scheme in Tanzania: findings from the MAISHA cluster randomised controlled trial (Paper)
- Longitudinal inconsistencies in women’s self-reports of lifetime experience of physical and sexual IPV: evidence from the MAISHA trial and follow-on study in North-western Tanzania (Paper)
- 10.17037/DATA.00001775 (DOI)
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