Impact of Women's Empowerment Program for Abused Pregnant Women

Macmillan Research Group UK

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Abuse Physical Battered Woman Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: Empowerment Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT01933555

Mac/NMP 0912

Details and patient eligibility

About

Although domestic violence is recognized as major threat in pregnancy, there is no intervention has been developed or test to support women in India. To evaluate the effect of women's empowerment program administered to abused women in order to reduce domestic abuse, improving health status and safety behavior.

Enrollment: 76 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• at least 18 years of age,
• victims of intimate partner violence, and
• willing to participate

Exclusion criteria

• women whose abuser was not their intimate partner or
• who were unable to consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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76 participants in 2 patient groups

Empowerment program

Experimental group

Description:

The hour intervention, delivered over a 11-week period, consisted of an empowerment and additional components adapted from Freedom program run to support domestic abused women.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Empowerment Program

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard care, which was routine check ups and care provided by health care professionals.