Trial reportBMC health services research2016
Testing a counselling intervention in antenatal care for women experiencing partner violence: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Testing the Integration of Gender-based Violence First-line Response in Family Planning and Antenatal Care Services in Nigeria
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Primary-level and community worker interventions for the prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of well-being in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Training healthcare providers to respond to intimate partner violence against women.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Psychological therapies for women who experience intimate partner violence.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 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
- Safe Pregnancy intervention for intimate partner violence: a randomised controlled trial in Norway among culturally diverse pregnant women.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Trial
- Enhancing agency for health providers and pregnant women experiencing intimate partner violence in South Africa.Global public health · 2020Trial
- Midwives' Attitudes Toward and Experience With a Tablet Intervention to Promote Safety Behaviors for Pregnant Women Reporting Intimate Partner Violence: Qualitative Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Trial
- Mapping Psychosocial Interventions for Mental Health and Well-Being Among Pregnant Women Living with HIV: A Scoping Review.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Review
- Perinatal HIV treatment in the context of financial and psychological intimate partner violence in urban South Africa.Psychology of violence · 2025Article
- Pathways to adverse pregnancy outcomes: exploring the mediating role of intimate partner violence and depression: results from a South African rape cohort study.Archives of women's mental health · 2023Article
- Intimate partner violence and HIV treatment adherence in urban South Africa: Mediating role of perinatal common mental disorders.SSM. Mental health · 2022Article
- The practice of pilot/feasibility studies in informing the conduct of HIV related clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2022Article
- A summative content analysis of how programmes to improve the right to sexual and reproductive health address power.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- User-Involvement in the Development of a Culturally Sensitive Intervention in the Safe Pregnancy Study to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence.Violence against women · 2021Article
- Acceptability and feasibility of the CHARISMA counseling intervention to support women's use of pre-exposure prophylaxis: results of a pilot study.BMC women's health · 2021Article
- Describing Relationship Characteristics and Postpartum HIV Risk Among Adolescent, Young Adult, and Adult Women in South Africa.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2020Article
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- Strengthening health systems response to violence against women: protocol to test approaches to train health workers in India.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2020Article
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- Generating CHARISMA: Development of an Intervention to Help Women Build Agency and Safety in Their Relationships While Using PrEP for HIV Prevention.AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundIntimate partner violence (IPV) during or before pregnancy is associated with many adverse health outcomes. Pregnancy-related complications or poor infant health outcomes can arise from direct trauma as well as physiological effects of stress, both of which impact maternal health and fetal growth and development. Antenatal care can be a key entry point within the health system for many women, particularly in low-resource settings. Interventions to identify violence during pregnancy and offer women support and counselling may reduce the occurrence of violence and mitigate its consequences.
methodsFollowing a formative research phase, a randomized controlled trial will be conducted to test a nurse-led empowerment counselling intervention, originally developed for high-income settings and adapted for urban South Africa. The primary outcome is reduction of partner violence, and secondary outcomes include improvement in women's mental health, safety and self-efficacy. The study aims to recruit 504 pregnant women from three antenatal clinics in Johannesburg who will be randomized to the nurse-led empowerment arm (two 30-min counselling sessions) or enhanced control condition (a referral list) to determine whether participants in the intervention arm have better outcomes as compared to the those in the control arm. DISCUSSION: This research will provide much needed evidence on whether a short counselling intervention delivered by nurses is efficacious and feasible in low resource settings that have high prevalence of IPV and HIV.
trial registrationThe study was registered in the South African Clinical Trials Registry (DOH-27-0414-4720) on 11 August 2014 and in the ISRCTN Registry ( ISRCTN35969343 ) on 23 May 2016).
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