Addressing violence against pregnant women in antenatal care: testing an intervention in South Africa

World Health Organization (Switzerland)0 sites500 target enrollmentMay 23, 2016

Overview

Phase: 未知
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Past 12-months intimate partner violence, defined as self-reported incidence one or more times of any physical or sexual act of partner abuse
Sponsor: World Health Organization (Switzerland)
Enrollment: 500
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 3 years ago

Registry

who.int

Start Date

May 23, 2016

End Date

July 29, 2016

Last Updated

3 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

Female

Sponsor

World Health Organization (Switzerland)

•1\. Age of 18 years or older
•2\. Less than 33 weeks gestation
•3\. Ability to communicate in English, Tswana, Sotho or Zulu
•4\. No positive response to any of the following exclusion criteria based on lethal risk:
•4\.1\. At immediate risk of lethal violence by a partner
•4\.2\. Child at immediate risk of lethal violence by her partner
•4\.3\. Suicidal risk (as determined by having ideation with a plan to commit suicide)
•Furthermore, participation in the RCT is dependent on IPV status. Only women who have a positive response that they have experienced any act of physical or sexual violence by a partner in the past year on either the screening instrument or the extended WHO instrument will be eligible for randomization. IPV\-negative women can participate in the sub\-studies but not in the RCT.

•Pregnant women who do not agree to be screened, enrolled and randomised, are less than 18 years of age, or who screen positive for immediate safety risk will be ineligible. These women will be recorded in a study log along with date, reason for exclusion, and nurse researcher notes on the case.