View clinical trials related to Domestic Violence.
Filter by:The objective of our study was to determine the extent to which contextual information about the circumstances of intimate partner violence affects participants' responses to questions about their personal attitudes toward intimate partner violence.
The purpose of this study is to combine a culturally tailored and integrated Risk Reduction Intervention in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) in a clinical trial randomly assigning abused women to a 1) Healthy Relationships experimental group of three sessions of risk reduction interventions or 2) a Healthy Living comparison control group of three session of health promotion activities to determine if the combined, intervention is safe and effective in a test the following hypotheses: 1. Women in the integrated risk reduction intervention will score significantly lower on outcome measures of intimate partner abuse (IPA) and STD/HIV risk behaviors end of Session III and at 3 and 6 months than women in the control group 2. Women in the integrated risk reduction Intervention will score significantly higher on IPA safety behaviors and STI/HIV prevention behaviors at end of Session III and at 3 and 6 months than women in the control group. Several exploratory and major controlled studies on the mainland US have shown intimate partner violence (IPV) and intimate partner abuse (IPA) to be risk factors for a variety of physical, reproductive and mental health problems, including sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS, many of which are areas of known health disparity for African American and Latina women. A recently completed study of African Caribbean and African American women in the US Virgin Islands revealed that nearly one third of women reported lifetime partner abuse and increased risk for sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS. Abused women in the USVI had significantly more risk factors for HIV/AIDS than did women who were not abused. The proposed intervention combines an empowerment model designed to help abused women make choices that protect the physical and emotional health of the woman and her family with a sexual safety model designed to help her make choices to reduce her risk of acquiring an STI or contracting HIV/AIDS. The integrated model adapts two interventions that have been tested with African American women on the US mainland and found to be effective as separate interventions for IPV and IPA and reducing the risk of STI/HIV. The adapted interventions will be used with abused African Caribbean women based on an a priori assessment of the cultural attitudes, beliefs and resources available to women living in an island environment with limited resources.
In collaboration with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Office for Violence Against Women (OVW) the Yale University team will evaluate the implementation process and impact of the U.S. Department of Justice's Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstration Initiative. This evaluation seeks to draw critical findings and potential lessons from the combined experience of the sites including: 1) how the models work in different communities; 2) the barriers and facilitators to implementing the models; and 3) outcomes of the model delivery. The evaluation team will also disseminate the findings with the goal of informing replication.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women have negative mental health consequences for survivors; interventions designed to improve survivors' depressive symptoms and health status are limited.Present study evaluate the effectiveness of an integrated intervention in reducing intimate partner violence (IPV) improving health status.
Young men who are members of the camps randomized to receive a microfinance and health leadership intervention will have a lower incidence of sexually transmitted infections (Neisseria gonorrhea (NG), Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) and report perpetrating less physical or sexual violence against sexual partners as compared to young men who are members of camps not randomized to receive the intervention.
Cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate a male-focused primary prevention programme which used a men's only group discussion format to prevent intimate partner violence against women & girls through fostering knowledge and behaviour changes by: (1) increasing men's knowledge on the impact of violence against women; (2) promoting gender equitable beliefs/behaviours within relationships; and (3) developing anger management techniques.
The proposed study seeks to investigate to what extent Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is an effective treatment for the reduction of symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression and for the improvement of daily functioning in Iranian women who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). In addition, the study seeks to investigate whether NET therapy could lead to the reduction of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) within their marriage.
The purpose of this study is to target co-occurring problems of substance use and intimate partner violence (IPV) using a computer-based intervention, B-SAFER (Brief intervention for Substance use and partner Abuse for Females in the Emergency Room). This project will develop and test the computer-based intervention, examining primary outcomes of substance use and utilization of relationship safety resources.
This research is being done to test whether mobile technology will reduce possible communication barriers between women and their home visitor; to improve assessing for health problems that could affect their pregnancy; to help in the delivery of information and actions to improve the health of the woman and their child.
The overall goal of this proposed study is to develop the state of knowledge in the area of gender-based violence and reproductive health by conducting a randomized controlled trial to improve the health care provider's capacity to screen for intimate partner violence and to mitigate associated risk among women health clinic patrons of reproductive age (ages18-44) with recent experiences of physical or sexual partner violence in Mexico City and its surrounding area. The specific research objectives are as follows: 1. To increase mid-level health care providers' capacity to identify Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and assist women with risk mitigation 2. Utilizing a randomized controlled trial, to assess the impact of an enhanced health care worker screening and counselling program on (a) past year severe IPV (sexual or physical), including severe IPV; (b) reproductive coercion (c) use of community-based resources and safety planning; and (d) quality of life; versus minimum standard of care 3. To qualitatively examine which programmatic components may serve as mechanisms for observed changes stated in the second objective 4. To synthesize study findings and a) create recommendations for clinic-based intervention programs to address IPV in low and middle income countries and b) disseminate information as reports, presentation, and peer-reviewed publications