Evaluation of a Male-focused Intervention to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence in a Conflict-affected Setting

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Domestic Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: Male-focused group violence prevention intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01803932

InterveneDV-CI

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate a male-focused primary prevention programme which used a men's only group discussion format to prevent intimate partner violence against women & girls through fostering knowledge and behaviour changes by: (1) increasing men's knowledge on the impact of violence against women; (2) promoting gender equitable beliefs/behaviours within relationships; and (3) developing anger management techniques.

Enrollment: 601 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 15+ years old
• males: participant in group intervention or selected as control
• females: female intimate partner of males in intervention or selected as control
• capable of completing face-to-face interview independently and without causing undue psychological distress

Exclusion criteria

• lack of informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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601 participants in 2 patient groups

Behavioral intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Male-focused group violence prevention intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Male-focused group violence prevention intervention

Control communities

No Intervention group

Description:

Communities in which male-focused group prevention activities will not be conducted