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The problem
Intervention: Comparison of health status between married and unmarried late adolescent girls
Who it was tested with: 160 married girls and 160 unmarried girls aged late adolescence (approximately 15-19 years) in an urban slum of North East Delhi.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"A comparison study was conducted among girls of late adolescent age in an urban slum of North East Delhi. One sixty study participants were included in each group." The study compares two groups at a single timepoint without random assignment or longitudinal design, placing it at the pre-post tier for observational evidence.
This is a cross-sectional comparison without a baseline or longitudinal follow-up, so causality cannot be established. The study does not control for socioeconomic confounders or other pre-existing differences between groups that might explain the health disparities. Specific mechanisms and detailed findings on reproductive health are not fully documented in the available text.
Across countries and designs
2 studies · 4 countries
