Does Routine Screening for Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Health Care Settings do More Good Than Harm?
- Conditions
- Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
- Interventions
- Other: Screening for intimate partner violence
- Registration Number
- NCT00182468
- Lead Sponsor
- McMaster University
- Brief Summary
The purpose of the research is to evaluate whether routine screening for woman abuse in health care settings, as compared to no screening, does more good than harm. Recent reviews have identified the need for high quality research to understand 1) the actual impact on all women of instituting mass screening procedures to identify woman abuse and 2) the extent to which early identification through screening is effective in preventing or ameliorating important outcomes. The main outcomes for the study are reduction in violence, improvement in life quality, and potential harms of screening. A number of secondary outcomes to help understand the process by which screening and usual care might lead to changes in the primary outcomes will also be assessed.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 5681
- Women aged 18-64 years
- Patients at the health care site
- Able to participate in English
- Able to separate from accompanying person(s)
- Too ill to participate
- Unable to separate from accompanying person(s)
- Unable to speak, read, or write English
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description 1 Screening for intimate partner violence Women are screened for intimate partner violence prior to seeing a health care provider.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Recurrence of intimate partner violence 18 months Health-specific quality of life 18 months Harms of screening and/or usual care 18 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Safety behaviours 18 months Use of information and resources 18 months Child quality of life 18 months Stage in process of identifying and resolving abuse 18 months Mental health (depression, post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD], anxiety, somatic complaints, substance use) 18 months Global physical and emotional health and well-being 18 months Health services utilization 18 months Exposure to maltreatment as a child 18 months
Trial Locations
- Locations (28)
Hopital Regional de Sudbury Regional Hospital, Emergency Services
🇨🇦Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Central Toronto Community Health Centre
🇨🇦Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joseph Brant Hospital
🇨🇦Burlington, Ontario, Canada
St. Joseph's Centre for Ambulatory Health Services
🇨🇦Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Grimsby Medical Associates
🇨🇦Grimsby, Ontario, Canada
West Lincoln Memorial Hospital
🇨🇦Grimsby, Ontario, Canada
Sudbury Brady Clinic
🇨🇦Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Rosedale Medical Group
🇨🇦Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
North Hamilton Community Health Centre
🇨🇦Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Aboriginal Health Centre
🇨🇦Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
City of Hamilton Public Health and Community Services Department
🇨🇦Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
McMaster University Medical Centre
🇨🇦Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
London Family Practice - Dr. Bhayana
🇨🇦London, Ontario, Canada
West End Clinic
🇨🇦Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
HART Clinic
🇨🇦Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
St. Joseph's Health Care - Women's Ambulatory Health Centre
🇨🇦London, Ontario, Canada
Willett Hospital Urgent Care
🇨🇦Paris, Ontario, Canada
Sudbury District Health Unit
🇨🇦Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre
🇨🇦Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
St. Joseph's Urgent Care
🇨🇦London, Ontario, Canada
Brantford Aboriginal Health Centre
🇨🇦Brantford, Ontario, Canada
St. Joseph's Family Medical & Dental Centre
🇨🇦London, Ontario, Canada
University Hospital
🇨🇦London, Ontario, Canada
Mt. Sinai Hospital
🇨🇦Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Victoria Hospital
🇨🇦London, Ontario, Canada
Niagara Health Prompt Care
🇨🇦St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Sudbury Family Physicians
🇨🇦Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Mt. Sinai Hospital, Obstetrics & Gynecology Clinic
🇨🇦Toronto, Ontario, Canada