Impact Evaluation of Training Civil Servants on Violence Against Women in Medellín, Colombia

Violence Against Women (VAW) Clinical Trial

Official title:

Capacity of State and Local Actors to Respond to Violence Against Women: Impact Evaluation of Training Civil Servants on Violence Against Women in Medellín (Colombia), Component of the Program "Seguridad Pública"

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02153554
• Other study ID #: ATN/MG-13064-RG ECO 577-3
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 28, 2014
• Last updated: February 6, 2017
• Start date: May 2014
• Est. completion date: June 2016

Study information

• Verified date: February 2017
• Source: Econometría Consultores
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the training of civil servants leads to a reduction in the violence suffered by women, as well as in their psychological wellbeing and attitudes towards violence.

Description:

The Secretary of Women of Medellin, through the ICONTEC, intends to conduct training to officials of the 22 family commissioners in Medellin. The objective of these trainings is to standardize procedures in order that women do not feel re-victimized and can forward complaints. Since the training will be done in phases in 2014 and there is willingness of relevant stakeholders to generate a random order on which commissioners the training is first performed, it can be done a cluster randomized trial.

We will require all 22 commissioners to be randomly assigned into two groups, one treatment and one control. To implement it is intended to:

• Conduct a baseline survey amongst women who used the services of the commissionaires between June and Septmber 2013, completed the process of care and signed informed consent.

• Training of a randomly chosen set of 11 commissioners will take place between June and September 2014.

• Conduct an endline survey amongst women who used the services of any of the 22 commissionaires between June and September 2014, completed the process of care and signed informed consent.

Women will be contacted through the commissioners. Women who have completed the process of care will be ask whether they want to participate in the study. If they agree, their contact details will transfer to the investigators for the survey to be conducted. This process would be conducted twice for baseline information before beginning the training, and for endline, once half of the first 11 commissioners have been trained.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 975
• Est. completion date: June 2016
• Est. primary completion date: November 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women who initiate and finalize the process with the comissaries of family

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Violence Against Women (VAW)

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Training civil servants on attention to violence against women
The Secretary of Women of Medellin, through the ICONTEC, intends to conduct training to officials of the 22 family commissioners in Medellin. The objective of these trainings is to standardize procedures in order that women do not feel re-victimized and can forward complaints.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Colombia	Econometria Consultores	Bogota

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Econometría Consultores	Inter-American Development Bank

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Colombia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Occurrence of violence	The outcome will be measure through a survey to women who used the services of the commissionaires, completed the process of care and signed informed consent	3 months
Secondary	Knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) on violence and care pathways	The outcome will be measure through a survey to women who used the services of the commissionaires, completed the process of care and signed informed consent	Average of 8 months after the complaint was presented at the comissaries
Secondary	Psychological well-being (self-acceptance, positive relationships, autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, purpose in life)	The outcome will be measure through a survey to women who used the services of the commissionaires, completed the process of care and signed informed consent	Average of 8 months after the complaint was presented at the comissaries
Secondary	Time resolution of cases	The outcome will be measured through secondary data of the commissaries with information between the time of the initiation of the complaint and the completed the process of care.	Average of 8 months after the complaint was presented at the comissaries