Women's relationships and well-being 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-11366958 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This project follows midlife women in rural Mozambique to learn how help and contact with children, relatives, and neighbors relate to happiness 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) | $52,902 |
| NIH project number | 3R01AG075526-04S2 |
| Project ID | NIH-11366958 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Midlife women living in the study's rural Mozambican communities (especially prior panel participants) who have adolescent or adult children and can complete interviews and surveys.
✕Less likely to help
Men, young children, or people living outside the study communities — and women without ties to adolescent/adult children — are unlikely to be eligible or directly helped by this project.
What this research studies
Researchers will re-contact women who took part in an earlier long-term panel and ask about material, practical, and emotional support they give and receive from children, in-laws, relatives, and non-relatives. Data collection will include surveys and in-depth interviews carried out in two new waves three years apart. The new information will be linked to past data on marriage, migration, co-residence with children, health, and economic changes to track how social ties affect life satisfaction, self-efficacy, depression, and anxiety over time.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, the findings could point to the kinds of family and community support that help reduce depression and anxiety and improve midlife women's well-being, informing local programs and policies.
How similar studies have gone: Prior research has linked family support to mental health, but long-term, panel-based evidence in resource-limited patriarchal settings is limited, so this approach adds relatively novel longitudinal depth.
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.