Trial reportPloS one2013
Effect of nurse home visits vs. usual care on reducing intimate partner violence in young high-risk pregnant women: a randomized controlled trial.
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- Home Visiting Interventions and Their Impact on Mental Health, Psychosocial, and Parenting Practice Outcomes of Vulnerable Caregivers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions for intimate partner violence during the perinatal period: A scoping review: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Systematic review and data synthesis on the treatment of sexual violence victimization by an intimate partner.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2024Pooled it
- Psychological therapies for women who experience intimate partner violence.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
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- A randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of a Nurse Home Visiting Program for Pregnant Adolescents.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
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- The impact of a referral card-based intervention on intimate partner violence, psychosocial health, help-seeking and safety behaviour during pregnancy and postpartum: a randomized controlled trial.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2017Trial
- Domestic Violence Enhanced Perinatal Home Visits: The DOVE Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2016Trial
- Improving children's health and development in British Columbia through nurse home visiting: a randomized controlled trial protocol.BMC health services research · 2016Trial
- The effect of VoorZorg, the Dutch nurse-family partnership, on child maltreatment and development: a randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2015Trial
- Health care professionals' postpartum nutritional counselling to women; a mixed-methods approach.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Components of Family-Focused Interventions that Have Common Impacts Across Parental Domestic Violence and Abuse, Mental Ill-Health, and Substance Misuse: An Intervention Components Analysis.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Article
- Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Children.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2025Review
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- Interventions for intimate partner violence during the perinatal period: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Population-Based Approaches to Prevent Domestic Violence against Women Using a Systematic Review.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2021Article
- Intimate Partner Violence and Resilience: The Experience of Women in Mother-Child Assisted Living Centers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Weathering the rural reality: delivery of the Nurse-Family Partnership home visitation program in rural British Columbia, Canada.BMC nursing · 2019Article
- The prevalence of intimate partner violence among couples signing up for universally offered parent preparation.PloS one · 2019Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundExpectant mothers and mothers of young children are especially vulnerable to intimate partner violence (IPV). The nurse-family partnership (NFP) is a home visitation program in the United States effective for the prevention of adverse child health outcomes. Evidence regarding the effect of nurse home visiting on IPV is inconsistent. This study aims to study the effect of VoorZorg, the Dutch NFP, on IPV.
methodsA random sample of 460 eligible disadvantaged women <26 years, with no previous live births, was randomized. Women in the control group (C; n=223) received usual care; women in the intervention group (I; n=237) received usual care plus nurse home visits periodically during pregnancy and until the child's second birthday.
resultsAt 32 weeks of pregnancy, women in the intervention group self-reported significantly less IPV victimization than women in the control group in: level 2 psychological aggression (C: 56% vs. I: 39%), physical assault level 1 (C: 58% vs. I: 40%) and level 2 (C: 31% vs. I: 20%), and level 1 sexual coercion (C: 16% vs. I: 8%). Furthermore, women in the intervention group reported significantly less IPV perpetration in: level 2 psychological aggression (C: 60% vs. I: 46%), level 1 physical assault (C: 65% vs. I: 52%), and level 1 injury (C: 27% vs. I: 17%). At 24 months after birth, IPV victimization was significantly lower in the intervention group for level 1 physical assault (C: 44% vs. I: 26%), and IPV perpetration was significantly lower for level 1 sexual assault (C: 18% vs. I: 3%). Multilevel analyses showed a significant improvement in IPV victimization and perpetration among women in the intervention group at 24 months after birth.
conclusionVoorZorg, compared with the usual care, is effective in reducing IPV during pregnancy and in the two years after birth among young high-risk women.
trial registrationDutch Trial Register NTR854 http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/admin/rctview.asp?TC=854.
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