Trial reportBMJ global health2020
Effective prevention of intimate partner violence through couples training: a randomised controlled trial of
Trial report in BMJ global health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06768502 (Effectiveness of Community-based Approach in Reducing the Intimate Partner Violence), which is not on this map. Cited by 57 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effectiveness of Community-based Approach in Reducing the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Exposure and Outcome: a Randomized Control Trial of IPV Victimization and Perpetration in Rwanda
Who cites it
57 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of microfinance interventions and violence against women: results from low- and middle-income contexts.BMJ global 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 to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Violence against women · 2024Pooled it
- Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Interventions at Structural, Community, Interpersonal, Individual, and Multiple Levels.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of community mobilisation and group-based interventions for preventing intimate partner violence against women in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of global health · 2023Pooled it
- Pooled analysis of the association between food insecurity and violence against women: Evidence from low- and middle-income settings.Journal of global health · 2023Pooled it
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- Effects of couple-based violence prevention education on male partners' knowledge, attitudes and controlling behavior related to intimate partner violence in rural Ethiopia: a cluster randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2025Trial
- Impacts of an abbreviated personal agency training with refugee women and their male partners on economic empowerment, gender-based violence, and mental health: a randomized controlled trial in Rwanda.BMC public health · 2024Trial
- 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
- Development of an Economic and Relationship-Strengthening Intervention for Alcohol Drinkers Living with HIV in Malawi.AIDS and behavior · 2023Trial
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- Improved Relationship Quality, Equitable Gender Attitudes, and Reduced Alcohol Abuse as Key Mechanisms to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence in the Bandebereho Couples' Randomized Trial in Rwanda.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Trial
- Prevention of violence against women and girls: A cost-effectiveness study across 6 low- and middle-income countries.PLoS medicine · 2022Trial
- Intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention using a cross-sectoral couple-based intervention: results from a cluster randomised control trial in Ibadan, Nigeria.BMJ global health · 2022Trial
- 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
- Assessing progress in gender-transformative sexual and reproductive health interventions: how does practice-based knowledge compare with published evidence in sub-Saharan Africa?Global health action · 2026Article
- A Scoping Review of IPV Prevention Curricula and Their Implementation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Implications for the Next Generation of Programs.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Dyadic Measurement Invariance of the 10-Item Continuum of Conflict and Control Relationship Scale.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2026Article
- Association between concurrence of risk factors and intimate partner violence against women: evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys in 53 low- and middle-income countries.BMJ global health · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundBetween 2015 and 2018, three civil society organisations in Rwanda implemented
methodsSectors (n=28) were purposively selected based on density of village savings and loan association (VLSA) groups and randomised (with stratification by district) to either the full community-level
resultsWe enrolled 828 women and 821 men in the intervention sectors and 832 women and 830 men in the control sectors; at endline, 815 women (98.4%) and 763 men (92.9%) in the intervention and 802 women (96.4%) and 773 men (93.1%) were available for intention-to-treat analysis. Women in the intervention compared with control were less likely to report physical and/or sexual IPV at 24 months (adjusted relative risk (aRR)=0.44, 95% CI 0.34 to 0.59). Men in the intervention compared with control were also significantly less likely to report perpetration of physical and/or sexual IPV at 24 months (aRR=0.54, 95% CI 0.38 to 0.75). Additional intervention benefits included reductions in acceptability of wife beating, conflict with partner, depression, and corporal punishment against children and improved conflict management, communication, trust, self-efficacy, self-rated health, household earnings, food security and actions to prevent IPV. There were no study-related harms.
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