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

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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

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

Trial contacts and locations

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