ArticleBMC public health2017
The Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV-risk behaviours in Durban, South Africa: study protocol for a cluster randomized control trial, and baseline characteristics.
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions for adolescent school boys and young men to reduce gender-based violence in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Randomized Controlled Trials of Interventions Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2020Pooled it
- A Systematised Review of the Health Impact of Urban Informal Settlements and Implications for Upgrading Interventions in South Africa, a Rapidly Urbanising Middle-Income Country.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus to reduce emotional dysregulation among young men in rural areas and urban informal settlements in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Assessing the role of depression in reducing intimate partner violence perpetration among young men living in urban informal settlements using a mediation analysis of the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention.Global health action · 2023Trial
- Cluster randomized controlled trial of Stepping Stones and Creating Futures to reduce mental health challenges among young men in informal settlements in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2023Trial
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- How do programmes to prevent intimate partner violence among the general population impact women with disabilities? Post-hoc analysis of three randomised controlled trials.BMJ global health · 2020Trial
- Which men change in intimate partner violence prevention interventions? A trajectory analysis in Rwanda and South Africa.BMJ global health · 2020Trial
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- Evaluation of the rural response system intervention to prevent violence against women: findings from a community-randomised controlled trial in the Central Region of Ghana.Global health action · 2020Trial
- Exploring young women's reproductive decision-making, agency and social norms in South African informal settlements.PloS one · 2020Trial
- Rural response system to prevent violence against women: methodology for a community randomised controlled trial in the central region of Ghana.Global health action · 2019Trial
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- E le Saua le Alofa (Love shouldn't hurt): exploring the acceptability, feasibility and potential impact of a co-developed intervention to prevent violence against women in Samoa.BMC public health · 2026Article
- "I think it is quite naive to think everybody's goal is that": how Zambian sexual violence stakeholder perspectives complicate global health roadmaps to 'decolonization'.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Intimate partner violence during pregnancy against 601,534 women aged 15 to 49 years in 57 LMICs: prevalence, disparities, trends and associated factors using Demographic and Health Survey data.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- A cash transfer plus gender transformative economic empowerment intervention seeking to improve the wellbeing of caregivers of children and adolescents living with HIV in South Africa: a feasibility study protocol for a pilot cluster randomized trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2025Article
- Intimate partner controlling behaviour and intimate partner violence among married women in rural areas in South Africa.BMC women's health · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundPreventing intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a global public health challenge. Studies suggest urban informal settlements have particularly high levels of IPV and HIV-prevalence and these settlements are rapidly growing. The current evidence base of effective approaches to preventing IPV recognizes the potential of combining economic strengthening and gender transformative interventions. However, few of these interventions have been done in urban informal settlements, and almost none have included men as direct recipients of these interventions.
methodsStepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention is a participatory gender transformative and livelihoods strengthening intervention. It is being evaluated through a cluster randomized control trial amongst young women and men (18-30) living in urban informal settlements in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa. The evaluation includes a qualitative process evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis. A comparison of baseline characteristics of participants is also included. DISCUSSION: This is one of the first large trials to prevent IPV and HIV-vulnerability amongst young women and men in urban informal settlements. Given the mixed methods evaluation, the results of this trial have the ability to develop a stronger understanding of what works to prevent violence against women and the processes of change in interventions.
trial registrationNCT03022370 . Registered 13 January 2017, retrospectively registered.
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