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

Not Applicable

Completed

• 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; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN35969343
• Lead Sponsor: World Health Organization (Switzerland)

Brief Summary

2016 Protocol article in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27814706 protocol

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-05-23
• Study Completion: 2016-07-29
• Last Update Posted: 31 October 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 500

Inclusion Criteria

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.

Exclusion Criteria

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified