Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Safe at Home Program
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 404
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Family functioning
Overview
Brief Summary
The goals of the pilot RCT examining the potential effectiveness of the Safe at Home program in DRC are to:
- Determine the potential effectiveness of Safe at Home program on improvements of family functioning and secondary outcomes of reductions in intimate partner violence and child maltreatment
- Determine the potential effectiveness of the Safe at Home program on changes in pathway outcomes such as attitudes towards harsh discipline, gender attitudes, power-sharing, positive parenting practices, etc.
Detailed Description
For the pilot RTC, quantitative data will be collected from up to 420 individuals participating in the Safe at Home program in the North Kivu, DRC. The 420 individuals comprising the study population will be 210 couples, of which both the male and female partners will be asked to participate in the study. After baseline data collection is completed, within each of the four sites where the program will occur in North Kivu, DRC, two groups of couples will be formed (n=8 groups total). Each group will be formed based on geographical proximity and will mirror real-life implementation of the program and ensure high fidelity to program design and limit contamination or spillover of Safe at Home to the control groups. Groups will then be randomized to receive Safe at Home in Cycle 1 or be waitlisted to receive Safe at Home in Cycle 2. After randomization is completed the Cycle 1 programming will commence. Following a waiting period of 3 months after the program ends, the endline survey will be administered. Subsequently Cycle 2 cohort will receive programming.
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
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •18 years of age or older
- •registered for the Safe at Home program
- •living with intimate partner who is also registered for the program and at least one child aged 6-12
- •speaker of Swahili, Kinyarwanda, or French
- •Exclusion criteria includes:
- •\< 18 years of age
- •being of a polygamous household
- •not registered for program
- •obvious mental, or cognitive, or communication difficulties.
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Family functioning
Time Frame: Three months after intervention completion
Mean change in women's reports (primary) and men's reports of family functioning
Secondary Outcomes
- Intimate partner violence(Three months after intervention completion)
- Harsh discipline(Three months after intervention completion)