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Intimate partner violence and pregnancy: a systematic review of interventions.
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions addressing violence against women in health services: An overview of systematic reviews regarding barriers and facilitators to implementation.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2026Pooled it
- Interventions to reduce inequalities for pregnant women living with disadvantage in high-income countries: an umbrella review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Father-Focused Interventions to Prevent or Reduce Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy and Early Parenthood: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions for intimate partner violence during the perinatal period: A scoping review: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Violence against women · 2024Pooled it
- Antenatal depression and its predictors among HIV positive women in Sub-Saharan Africa; a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- Psychosocial interventions for intimate partner violence in low and middle income countries: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.Journal of global health · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for women who report domestic violence during and after pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic literature review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for reducing and/or controlling domestic violence among pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Intimate partner violence and mental ill health among global populations of Indigenous women: a systematic review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2017Pooled it
- Interventions for preventing or reducing domestic violence against pregnant women.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
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- Safe Pregnancy intervention for intimate partner violence: a randomised controlled trial in Norway among culturally diverse pregnant women.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Trial
- 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
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- Strategies for preventing gender-based violence in healthcare services: Evidence synthesis for health policy.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2026Review
- The burden and determinants of intimate partner violence against reproductive-age women in four East African countries: evidence from 2021/2023 DHS dataset.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Partner involvement and emotional and informational support gaps as predictors of postpartum birth trauma symptoms: a multi-center cross-sectional study of 230 women at 42 days postpartum.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundIntimate partner violence (IPV) around the time of pregnancy is a widespread global health problem with many negative consequences. Nevertheless, a lot remains unclear about which interventions are effective and might be adopted in the perinatal care context.
objectiveThe objective is to provide a clear overview of the existing evidence on effectiveness of interventions for IPV around the time of pregnancy.
methodsFollowing databases PubMed, Web of Science, CINAHL and the Cochrane Library were systematically searched and expanded by hand search. The search was limited to English peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials published from 2000 to 2013. This review includes all types of interventions aiming to reduce IPV around the time of pregnancy as a primary outcome, and as secondary outcomes to enhance physical and/or mental health, quality of life, safety behavior, help seeking behavior, and/or social support.
resultsWe found few randomized controlled trials evaluating interventions for IPV around the time of pregnancy. Moreover, the nine studies identified did not produce strong evidence that certain interventions are effective. Nonetheless, home visitation programs and some multifaceted counseling interventions did produce promising results. Five studies reported a statistically significant decrease in physical, sexual and/or psychological partner violence (odds ratios from 0.47 to 0.92). Limited evidence was found for improved mental health, less postnatal depression, improved quality of life, fewer subsequent miscarriages, and less low birth weight/prematurity. None of the studies reported any evidence of a negative or harmful effect of the interventions. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Strong evidence of effective interventions for IPV during the perinatal period is lacking, but some interventions show promising results. Additional large-scale, high-quality research is essential to provide further evidence about the effect of certain interventions and clarify which interventions should be adopted in the perinatal care context.
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