Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Intervention Trial

University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: IPV; Sexual Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: Stepping Stones and Creating Futures

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03022370

BFC043/15

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates whether the behavioural/structural interventions of Stepping Stones and Creating Futures can reduce the incidence of intimate partner violence in urban informal settlements amongst young people. Half the participants will receive the interventions, while the other half will be in a control wait-list, only receiving the intervention after final data collection.

Enrollment: 1,351 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Normally resident in informal settlement cluster
• Not formally employed
• Able to communicate in main study languages (English, isiZulu, iXhosa)

Exclusion criteria

• Under 18
• Mental deficit (learning difficulty, mental illness or substance abuse)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,351 participants in 2 patient groups

Stepping Stones and Creating Futures

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention, comprising of 21 participatory/inter-active sessions, delivered by a trained facilitators. Each session last approximately 3 hours. Sessions are delivered twice a week. Sessions are primarily single sex, with 20 participants per group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stepping Stones and Creating Futures

Wait-list control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants receive no intervention until after final data collection occurs, at which point they will be offered Stepping Stones and Creating Futures.