Group-based Life Skills and Health Empowerment for Married Women to Avoid Unintended Pregnancies in India

Inclusion Criteria

• •Age 18-25 years at the time of the wedding
• •Married women have permanently moved in their husbands home in the most recent wedding season (recruitment month going backwards up to October of the previous year)
• •Not wanting to get pregnant within 1 year at recruitment/enrollment
• •Have not had a live birth previously and not currently pregnant
• •Women not planning to migrate out of the area for the period of the intervention
• •• Has a living husband who is willing to consent and participate in the study in person or remotely (over phone)
• •Has a living, co-residing mother-in-law type person\* (see definition below) who is willing to consent and participate in the study in person (A mother-in-law type of person should be staying in the same household for the period of the intervention and has consented to participate in the study. Mother-in-law is defined as any senior woman (from a previous generation of the DIL) who are responsible for their daughter-in-law and cohabiting in the same household as their daughter-in-law (Note - household would mean a family unit which shares the same kitchen). This will usually be the biological mother of the husband, but it can be stepmother, grandmother, aunt, etc.)
• •18 years or more at the time of the wedding
• •Mother and wife are eligible for the study participation
• •Consent to participate in the study
• •Assents for daughter-in-law to participate in the study
• •Son and the daughter-in-law are eligible for study participation