Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus Pilot

University of Exeter

Status: Completed

Conditions: Poverty; Intimate Partner Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus (SSCF+)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05783336

EC023-10/2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this randomised controlled clinical trial is to test the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus (SSCF+) intervention, in young (18-25 years) people living in urban informal settlements in Durban and rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Is the intervention acceptable and feasible
• What is the potential effect size on key outcomes of intimate partner violence

Participants will be randomised (1:1) to compare SSCF+ and a control arm to see if there are differences between the two on intimate partner violence.

Full description

Intimate partner violence is very common in South Africa, particularly urban informal settlements. We have co-developed an intervention, called Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus (SSCF+), which will be evaluated in women and men aged 18-25 years living in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

This is a pilot randomised controlled trial and as such there is focus on understanding whether the intervention is acceptable (to participants), feasible to deliver, and the potential effect sizes we may see in a full trial.

Enrollment: 323 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Normally resident in the community where recruiting
• Aged 18-30 years old
• Not in formal employment, or full-time education
• Able to communicate in the main languages of the study (English, isiXhosa or isiZulu)
• Able to provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Only in the community temporarily
• Unable to provide informed consent
• Under 18 years of age, or over 31 years old at point of recruitment
• Unable to communicate in main study languages

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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323 participants in 2 patient groups

SSCF+

Experimental group

Description:

Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus (SSCF+). Small group intervention, comprising approximately 15 sessions (each session \~3 hours), addressing gender, livelihoods, mental health.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus (SSCF+)

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention control (wait-list)