Effectiveness of a Telephone Intervention to Improve the Mental Health of Abused Women

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Battered Women

Treatments: Behavioral: usual community services; Behavioral: advocacy intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01054898

UW 06-105 T/1130

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if a telephone social support and empowerment intervention is more effective than usual community services in improving the mental health of community-dwelling women abused by their intimate partners.

Full description

Depression is one of the most common mental health sequelae of intimate partner violence (IPV). Although a range of interventions have been tried to improve the mental health of women survivors of IPV, the results are inconclusive. In this trial, a 12-week advocacy intervention consisting of empowerment and telephone social support is provided to abused Chinese women in a community setting. Usual community services provide the control condition.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Chinese women 18 years of age or older
• Self-report of psychological, physical or sexual abuse by their current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months
• Live or work in a community within the catchment area of a community centre designated for the proposed study

Exclusion criteria

• Perpetrator is not an intimate partner

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

advocacy intervention

Experimental group

Description:

A 12-week telephone social support and empowerment intervention consisting of empowerment training, scheduled weekly telephone calls, and 24-hour access to a hotline for abused women

Treatment:

Behavioral: advocacy intervention

Usual community services

Active Comparator group

Description:

Standard care for abused women in the community

Treatment:

Behavioral: usual community services