Empowerment over pills: can Life-Skills training curb unintended pregnancies?
NCT ID NCT06024616
First seen Aug 11, 2026 · Last updated Aug 12, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial tests a group-based program called TARANG, designed to empower young married women in India with life skills, reproductive health knowledge, and confidence to make decisions about family planning. The study involves about 2,400 women aged 18-25 who recently married and do not want to become pregnant within a year. Half will receive the TARANG sessions, while the other half gets standard health information. Researchers will compare the two groups to see if the program reduces unintended pregnancies and increases use of modern contraceptives.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- TARANG, a group-based behavioral intervention with life skills and health empowerment sessions
- What this could lead to
- If effective, this approach could offer a scalable, non-medical way to reduce unintended pregnancies and empower young women in similar settings.
- What could go wrong
- The trial is early and relies on self-reported outcomes, which may not reflect real-world effectiveness. Results may not generalize beyond this region.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 2,400 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Apr 2024
- Expected to finish
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Feb 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria for newly married women: * Age 18-25 years at the time of the wedding * Married women have permanently moved in their husbands home in the most recent wedding season (recruitment month going backwards up to October of the previous year) * Not wanting to get pregnant within 1 year at recruitment/enrollment * Have not had a live birth previously and not currently pregnant * Women not planning to migrate out of the area for the period of the intervention • Has a living husband who is willing to consent and participate in the study in person or remotely (over phone) * Has a living, co-residing mother-in-law type person\* (see definition below) who is willing to consent and participate in the study in person (A mother-in-law type of person should be staying in the same household for the period of the intervention and has consented to participate in the study. Mother-in-law is defined as any senior woman (from a previous generation of the DIL) who are responsible for their daughter-in-law and cohabiting in the same household as their daughter-in-law (Note - household would mean a family unit which shares the same kitchen). This will usually be the biological mother of the husband, but it can be stepmother, grandmother, aunt, etc.) Inclusion criteria for husband: * 18 years or more at the time of the wedding * Mother and wife are eligible for the study participation Inclusion criteria for mother-in-law: * Consent to participate in the study * Assents for daughter-in-law to participate in the study * Son and the daughter-in-law are eligible for study participation Exclusion criteria for newly married women: * Wanting to have a child in the next 12 months at the time of baseline * Cognitive ability to participate in surveys
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Vikalp Sansthan
Udaipur, Rajasthan, 313011, India
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