Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Intervention Pilot

Sexual Violence Clinical Trial

Official title:

Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Intervention Pilot

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03257176
• Other study ID #: HSS/0789/011
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• First received: August 7, 2017
• Last updated: August 17, 2017
• Start date: May 2, 2012
• Est. completion date: July 30, 2013

Study information

• Verified date: August 2017
• Source: University of KwaZulu
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a shortened interrupted time series pilot evaluation over a twelve month period to evaluate whether the combined Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention can reduce men's perpetration of IPV and women's experience of IPV, strengthen livelihoods and reduce gender inequality.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 232
• Est. completion date: July 30, 2013
• Est. primary completion date: July 30, 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 30 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Over 18

• Mentally competent

• Able to communicate in English, Zulu, or Xhosa

• Normally resident in the informal settlement

Exclusion Criteria:

• Over 30

• Unable to do informed consent

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Livelihoods
• Physical Violence
• Sexual Violence

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Stepping Stones and Creating Futures
21 session intervention, comprising of 10 Stepping Stones sessions focused on gender, relationships and communication. 11 Creating Futures sessions focused on livelihoods.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
South Africa	Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council	Durban	KwaZulu-Natal

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of KwaZulu	Medical Research Council, South Africa, Project Empower

Country where clinical trial is conducted

South Africa, 

References & Publications (2)

Gibbs A, Willan S, Jama-Shai N, Washington L, Jewkes R. 'Eh! I felt I was sabotaged!': facilitators' understandings of success in a participatory HIV and IPV prevention intervention in urban South Africa. Health Educ Res. 2015 Dec;30(6):985-95. doi: 10.1093/her/cyv059. — View Citation

Jewkes R, Gibbs A, Jama-Shai N, Willan S, Misselhorn A, Mushinga M, Washington L, Mbatha N, Skiweyiya Y. Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention: shortened interrupted time series evaluation of a behavioural and structural health promotion and v — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Past three month physical IPV perpetration (men) and experience (women)	Physical intimate partner violence is assessed using five items based on the WHO VAW scale, asking about perpetration (men) and experience (women) of these five behaviourally specific actions in the past three months. A positive response to any of the five items leads to a person being classified as perpetrating (men) and experiencing (women) physical IPV in the past three months.	12 months post baseline
Primary	Past three month sexual IPV perpetration (men) and experience (women)	Sexual intimate partner violence is assessed using three items based on the WHO VAW scale for sexual IPV. Questions are asked for the past three month perpetration (men) and experience (women). A positive response to any item leads to a person being classified as perpetrating (men) and experiencing (women) in the past three months.	12 months post baseline
Primary	Earnings in past month	A single item question asks "Considering all the money you earned from jobs or selling things (excluding grants), how much did you earn last month?" Responses are in Rands and a continuous scale.	12 months post baseline
Secondary	Work stress	4 items ask about work stress because of a lack of work. Responses are on a likert scale.	12 months post baseline
Secondary	Feelings about work shame	4 items ask about shame because of type and lack of work. Responses are on a likert scale.	12 months post baseline
Secondary	Gender attitudes	Modified gender equitable men's scale assess participant's gender attitudes.	12 months post baseline
Secondary	Controlling behaviours	Controlling behaviours are assessed using a modified Sexual Relationship Power (SRP) scale. Men's control of female sexual partner's and women's experience of controlling behaviours from a male partner.	12 months post baseline
Secondary	Condom use at last sex	Single item asking about condom use at last sex	12 months post baseline
Secondary	Hunger in the past month	Single item assesses hunger in the past month	12 months post baseline