Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation Program (DOVE)

Phase 2

Completed

• Conditions: Domestic Violence
• Interventions: Behavioral: Public Health Nurse Home Visit; Behavioral: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Protocol

• Registration Number: NCT00465556
• Lead Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University

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 Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-02
• Study First Submitted: 2007-04-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-04-24
• Study First Posted: 2007-04-25
• Primary Completion: 2010-11
• Study Completion: 2011-11
• Status Verified: 2015-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-03-31
• Last Update Posted: 2015-04-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 239

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
1	Public Health Nurse Home Visit	Dove Intervention
2	Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Protocol	Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Protocol

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Reducing children's exposure to Intimate Partner Violence	Baseline (entry into the study), birth of the infant, and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after the infant's birth.
Reducing Intimate Partner Violence	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	Baseline (entry into the study), birth of the infant, and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after the infant's birth.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services; Missouri Community Based Home Visiting Program and Lutheran and Family Children's Services in Columbia and Springfield; 🇺🇸 Columbia, Missouri, United States

Baltimore City Health Department; 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States