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The problem
Intervention: Family-based economic-strengthening intervention provided alongside bolstered standard of care services, compared to bolstered standard of care alone
Who it was tested with: Orphaned adolescents aged 11-17 years in HIV-impacted communities in Uganda.
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.
"We analyzed data from a cluster randomized experimental study for orphaned adolescents aged 11-17 years. Participants were randomly assigned to either the control condition, which received bolstered standard of care (BSOC) services, or the treatment condition, which received BSOC services plus an economic-strengthening intervention." The study uses a rigorous randomized design comparing intervention and control groups, though the reported findings focus on descriptive patterns of networks rather than comparative intervention effects.
The study does not clearly report whether the economic-strengthening intervention itself produced a significant effect on nonkin support networks compared to control, limiting conclusions about intervention effectiveness. Mechanisms linking savings to social networks are unexplored.
Across countries and designs
8 studies · 3 countries
