Samvad Project Datasets

Beaumont, E. 2022. Samvad Project Datasets. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00002743.

Beaumont, E. Samvad Project Datasets [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2022. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00002743.

Beaumont, E (2022). Samvad Project Datasets. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00002743.

Description

The Samvad project was designed to monitor and evaluate the Samvad intervention, a large-scale digital behaviour change intervention aimed at improving maternal and child nutrition in five Indian states. Six cross-sectional surveys were conducted across five states in India between September 2018 and December 2019. Data were collected from women with a child under two years and married women aged 15-34 years without a child under two years, the husbands of the women interviewed, frontline workers and Samvad video disseminators. From the women and men, data were collection on demographics, exposure to the Samvad intervention, and knowledge and behaviour of key maternal, newborn and young child nutrition and family planning practices. Data on video topic and number of attendees were collected from video disseminators and data on available services and health facility supplies were collected from frontline workers.

Methods

Description of data capture

Data were collected by trained data collectors using Open Data Kit (ODK) on Android phones.

Data capture method

Interview: Face-to-face

Data Collection Period

From	To
1 September 2018	1 December 2019

Date (Completed)

7 February 2022

Language(s) of written materials

Hindi

People & Groups

Data Creators	Beaumont, E
Associated roles	Kadiyala, S (Principal Investigator), Allen, E (Co-Investigator), Beaumont, E (Data Manager), Kumar, S (Regional Co-ordinator), Arayan, V (Regional Co-ordinator) and Ali, F (Co-Investigator)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Medical Statistics Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Population Health (2012- ) > Dept of Nutrition and Public Health Interventions Research (2003-2012)
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Digital Green