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The problem
Intervention: Assessment of the relationship between age at marriage and decision-making participation and satisfaction among married adolescent girls
Who it was tested with: 796 married adolescent girls in Dosso region of Niger; over half married before age 15.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"Multiple logistic regression models were used to determine the association of age at marriage with married girls' participation in and satisfaction with decision-making processes." The study uses a cross-sectional design from a randomized trial baseline but does not test an intervention; rather, it examines associations in observational data, placing it in the EXPERIMENTAL tier due to the larger study's design, though this analysis itself cannot establish causation.
Cross-sectional design prevents causal inference; the disconnect between participation and satisfaction suggests gender norms may be limiting girls' sense of agency regardless of actual participation levels
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
