Evaluating interventions to reduce child marriage in India

India grapples with its child marriage challenge.

On a July afternoon in Upparapalli village in the state of Andhra Pradesh, southern India, something remarkable was happening. Inside a classroom, a group of teenage school girls trilled a lilting melody in honour of 15-year-old Savitri Pullakunta, whose marriage had been successfully thwarted by their collective eff ort. The young girls who had gathered in this school in the Adoni division of ...

Can mass media interventions reduce child mortality?

Many people recognise that mass media is important in promoting public health but there have been few attempts to measure how important. An ongoing trial in Burkina Faso (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01517230) is an attempt to bring together the very different worlds of mass media and epidemiology: to measure rigorously, using a cluster-randomised design, how many lives mass media can save in a low-i...

Eliminating Child Marriage in India: A Backdoor Approach to Alleviating Human Rights Violations

Despite its illegality, child marriage occurs throughout the Indian landscape. In her book, Child Marriage in India: Socio-legal and Human Rights Dimensions, Jaya Sagade examines the prevalence of child marriage among India’s various cultures and its impact on the human rights of young women. Sagade asserts that, notwithstanding minimal legislative efforts, the Indian government has not met the...

antibiotic and interventions to reduce inappropriate prescribing

Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions in child psychiatry.

OBJECTIVE To review the nature of outcome measures used to evaluate psychosocial treatment in children. METHOD Recent research findings that highlight the importance of outcome data and justify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are reviewed. RESULTS Outcome measures of child therapy can focus on changes in the child's symptoms, adaptation to the psychosocial environment, cognitive or emot...