Intimate Partner Violence
Conditions
Interventions
SAFE, a selfsupport eHealth intervention for women exposed to intimate partner violence, which has yet to be developed
Sponsors
Radboudumc, Primary and Community Care, Gender&Women's Health
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Women, aged 18 years and older, self-identifying themselves as being a victim of IPV through a series of questions and consequently registering online for SAFE. The upper age limit has been set at 50 for the trial because women of childbearing age bear the greatest health burden associated with DV, and are the most likely to be in relationships where IPV is present. Once the trial is completed, the website will be available to women of all ages.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Women are excluded if in a follow up contact they identify that they have not been in an unhealthy or abusive relationship or experienced fear of partner in the past 6 months. Participants not reading the Dutch language are excluded in the RCT, because content of the website (at start) and all outcome measures are in Dutch.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. We chose Self-efficacy, measured by The General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE) as primary outcome measure. This scale assesses a general sense of perceived self-efficacy, aiming to predict coping ability and adaptation to stressful life events. The Scale has 10 questions with response choices on a 4-point scale: Not at all true/Hardly true/ Moderately true /Exactly true. The GSE has been validated in both the Dutch and international community (á0.78-0.94) [94-96]. We hypothesize that the intervention group scores a higher mean self-efficacy score than the comparison group, immediately after intervention completion and at 6 months post-baseline. The GSE will take about 5 minutes to complete. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 2nd outcomes 1. Anxiety and Depression, measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Existing mental health research supports the mediating effects of self-efficacy on mental health, specifically depression. E-health has been shown effective to reduce depressive symptoms [53, 97-101]. The HADS is commonly used to determine the levels of anxiety and depression that a patient is experiencing. The HADS is a fourteen item scale that generates ordinal data. Seven of the items relate to anxiety (HADS-A) and seven relate to depression (HADS-D). Cronbach's alpha for HADS-A varied from.68 to.93 (mean.83) and for HADS-D from.67 to.90 (mean.82) [102-104]. We hypothesize that participants in the intervention group show a lower mean depression score than the comparison group, as measured by the HADS at 6 months post-baseline. The HADS takes about 5 minutes to complete. 2. Awareness, measured by a modified version of the Contemplation Ladder, as used in the I-decide study [87]. Women will indicate their position on a modified version of the Contemplation Ladder [105], a tool originally developed to measure readiness to cease smoking. The ladder is designed to measure awareness of abuse from 0–10 based on how ready the woman is to make positive changes to her situation. The Contemplation Ladder, modified version will take about 5 minutes to complete. 3. Perceived support (social), measured by the Medical Outcomes Survey - Social Support, 5-item version (MOS-SS5). This is a 5-item version of the MOS social support survey. The questions ask the woman how often she has access to support from someone in her life, with response options on a 5-point Likert scale (á 0.88) [106, 107]. The MOS-SS5 will take about 5 minutes to complete. 4. Actions & Activities, measuring what activities or services the participant has used over the past six months. The first part of this questionnaire is adapted from the WEAVE service use & activities questionnaire to the Dutch si | — |
Contacts
Public ContactNicole van Gelder
Radboudumc
Outcome results
None listed