Efficacy Trial of Raices Nuevas

Joanne Klevens

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3; Phase 2

Conditions: Intimate Partner Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: Raices nuevas

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00527241

U49CE000508

IRB #4939

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial will test the impact of a culturally tailored and theory driven primary intimate partner violence prevention intervention with Spanish speaking Latino men.

Full description

In this randomized controlled trial, Spanish speaking Latino men will be recruited from community church settings in Southwest Detroit and randomly assigned to: (a) an intimate partner violence prevention intervention or (b) a wait-list control condition. Latino men assigned to the intervention will receive, in a small group setting, an 8-session, primary intimate partner violence prevention intervention based on the Duluth model and culturally and linguistically tailored for Spanish speaking Latino men. Measures will be administered at pre-test, and at three and six months post-intervention.

Enrollment: 160 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Spanish speaking Latino men
• between the ages of 18 and 55
• in a stable relationship for at least the past three months

Exclusion criteria

• severely mentally impaired
• hearing impaired

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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160 participants in 2 patient groups

1: A

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Raices nuevas

2 B

No Intervention group

Description:

wait-listed for intervention to begin in 6 months