Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation Program - DOVE
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
- Enrollment
- 239
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Reducing Intimate Partner Violence
Study Overview
Brief Summary
DOVE Home Visit Program is a brochure based intervention delivery by public health nurses which aims to prevent and reduce intimate partner violence against pregnant and postpartum women and their infants.
The purpose of the study is to test the effect of home visits on reducing domestic violence and improving the lives of pregnant women and their children.
Detailed Description
Outcomes will provide intervention efficacy data about a public health nurse home visit intervention aimed at reducing and preventing intimate partner violence and children's exposure to IVP as well as prospective information about patterns of intimate partner violence.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- Female
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Pregnant women 31 weeks or less gestation, over age 18, with a history of intimate partner violence within the past 2 years, and who are willing to participate in the home visit program
Exclusion Criteria
- •Age 17 or less. History of partner violence beyond 2 years. Not participating in home visit program. Does not speak English
Arms & Interventions
1
Dove Intervention
Intervention: Public Health Nurse Home Visit (Behavioral)
2
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Protocol
Intervention: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Protocol (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Reducing Intimate Partner Violence
Time Frame: Baseline (entry into the study), birth of the infant, and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after the infant's birth.
Reducing children's exposure to Intimate Partner Violence
Time Frame: Baseline (entry into the study), birth of the infant, and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after the infant's birth.
Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence
Time Frame: Baseline (entry into the study), birth of the infant, and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after the infant's birth.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Phyllis Sharps
Professor, Associate Dean
Johns Hopkins University