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Alleviating Loneliness Among Female Migrant Garment Workers in India
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Female Labor Force Underrepresentation
Gendered Labor Migration Social Costs
"At 27 percent, female labor force participation in India was roughly half of the global average in 2018 and continues to decline."
Guided Peer Friendship Building
Guided Peer Friendship Building Intervention
"In the first group, the senior-junior pair will participate in weekly activities intended to foster friendships among them."
Language-Matched Peer Mentorship
Language and Hostel-Matched Mentorship Pairing
"Researchers will match two randomly selected groups of 'juniors' with a senior living in the same hostel and speaking the same language."
Lay-Delivered WHO Problem Management Plus (PM+)
Lay Peer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Delivery
"The PM+ intervention is based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and consists of training recipients in low-resource settings to assist others with adversity."
High Workforce Turnover in LMIC Manufacturing
"Factories in the manufacturing sector in low-and middle-income countries typically face high turnover rates with 75 percent or more of their workforce leaving the firm every year."
Psychosocial Health-Productivity Linkage
"The social isolation resulting from migration can negatively affect women's mental health and, in return, diminish their productivity at work."
Senior-Junior Mentoring and Social Support Network
"Researchers will match two randomly selected groups of 'juniors' with a senior living in the same hostel and speaking the same language. The senior mentor will meet with the junior twice per week for eight weeks and provide the following types of support..."
Peer Social Network Spillover in Industrial Cohorts
"In addition to the primary intervention, researchers will enroll 6,000 workers who are socially connected to study participants at the start of the intervention. Researchers will survey these workers to assess the extent to which the effects of the program spill over within participants' social networks."
Lay-Delivered WHO PM+ Intervention in Manufacturing
"The PM+ intervention is based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and consists of training recipients in low-resource settings to assist others with adversity. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based methodology to address a variety of mental health conditions, including loneliness."
Multi Wave Participant Survey Evaluation
"Participants in the program, regardless of whether they benefit from the intervention or not, will complete surveys at the beginning of the program as well as during (weeks two, four, six, and eight), as well as three and six months after the program ends."
Senior Worker Mentor Recruitment
"Researchers will match these individuals with 1,000 'seniors,' or more established workers who can act as their mentors."
Social Network Spillover Assessment
"In addition to the primary intervention, researchers will enroll 6,000 workers who are socially connected to study participants at the start of the intervention."
Target Female Migrant Worker Enrollment
"All participants will be young women between the ages of 18 and 30 years old, typically entering the formal economy for the first time."