CompletedNot Applicable

Women Lift Safely! An Intervention Study to Reduce the Risks of Heavy Lifting

Nepal600 participantsStarted 2022-01-14

Plain-language summary

The Women Lift Safely! Intervention study aims to increase safe carrying behavior to reduce health risks of heavy lifting in a rural area of Nepal (i.e. reducing weight and using safe lifting techniques). The study's specific aims are to: 1\) Test whether a psychological intervention that promotes self-efficacy can promote women's use of safe carrying behavior effectively compared to an information only control condition. (2) Test whether including a social partner in the intervention is more effective than an individual psychological intervention.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 49 Years

SexFEMALE

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Inclusion criteria: * Written informed consent * Gender: female * Being adult and in reproductive age (18-49 years) * Having experience in carrying loads * Having a social partner with experience in carrying loads * Residing in the targeted community Exclusion criteria: * If the women themselves or a household member presents covid symptoms they need to be excluded to avoid any risk of contamination of the research team. * Women without a possible social partner will be excluded from the survey since this intervention is designed to include support of a social partner. They will receive the information only control intervention for ethical reasons when approached as a household in random selection.

What they're measuring

Self-reported carried weight at follow up

Timeframe: 8 weeks after intervention

Index of self-reported safe lifting techniques during performance at follow up

Timeframe: 8 weeks after intervention

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05154006

SponsorUniversity of Bern

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2022-04-02