How family and community relationships affect midlife women's emotional health in rural Mozambique
Official title: Women’s Social Ties and Psychosocial Well-Being in a Resource-Limited Patriarchal Setting: A Longitudinal Perspective
Funded at University of California Los Angeles · NIH-11379163 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This project follows midlife women in rural Mozambique to learn how support from children, relatives, and others links to their happiness, stress, and mental health.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | University of California Los Angeles NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Los Angeles, United States) |
| Project start | September 1, 2022 |
| Project end | May 31, 2027 |
| Funding year | 2025 |
| Award (this year) | $141,677 |
| NIH project number | 3R01AG075526-04S1 |
| Project ID | NIH-11379163 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Midlife women living in rural Mozambique with adolescent or adult children, and those who have experienced husbands' labor migration or other family changes, are the ideal participants.
✕Less likely to help
Women outside the study region or age range, men, and people without relevant family roles may not find the results directly applicable to their situation.
What this research studies
You would be re-contacted for two new rounds of surveys and interviews over several years about the help and support you give and receive from your children, relatives, in-laws, and neighbors, and about your happiness, stress, confidence, and health. These new interviews will be combined with earlier surveys and interviews collected from 2006 to 2018 to see how relationships and life events change over time. Researchers will ask about marriage history, whether your husband has migrated for work, living arrangements with children, and past investments in your children's health and education to understand how these things relate to emotional well-being. Your answers could help reveal patterns that affect many women living in similar rural, patriarchal settings.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, the findings could inform programs and policies that strengthen social support and improve mental well-being for midlife women in rural sub-Saharan contexts.
How similar studies have gone: Earlier panel research has linked family support and migration patterns to women's well-being, and this project builds on that existing evidence by adding two new longitudinal waves in the same population.
Where this research is happening
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University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Agadjanian, Victor — University of California Los Angeles
- Study coordinator: Agadjanian, Victor
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About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page.