Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation Program (DOVE)

Johns Hopkins University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Domestic Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: Public Health Nurse Home Visit; Behavioral: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Protocol

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00465556

NR009093

1R01NR009093-01A2 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 239 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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239 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

Dove Intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Public Health Nurse Home Visit

2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Protocol

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Protocol