Group Empowerment of Battered Women as a Tool for Violence Prevention - Full Text View

Purpose

Intimate partner violence against women is a significant global health problem. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that a group intervention based on empowerment theory of Paolo Freire would be effective as a means to reduce the extent and prevent violence among women whose partners were violent toward them.

Condition	Intervention
Domestic Violence	Behavioral: EBW group intervention to empower battered women

MedlinePlus related topics:

Domestic Violence

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Prevention, Randomized, Single Blind, Placebo Control, Parallel Assignment

Further study details as provided by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Conflict tactics scale, Posttraumatic stress scale for
family violence

Study Start Date:	December 2001
Study Completion Date:	December 2004

Detailed Description:

A randomized controlled trial (N=141) with two control groups (one individual psychotherapeutic treatment and the other a usual care group treatment) was conducted in a violence treatment center in the South of Israel The treatment protocol designed to empower battered women (EBW) was conducted with 12 groups over a period of two years. Assessments were made before, immediately following and at an 8 month follow up following the intervention.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	20 Years to 70 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Female
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Women living in the south, who had approached the center for help as battered women
Could fill out forms in Hebrew
Aged 20 and above

Exclusion Criteria:

Age younger than 20
Not able to fill out forms in Hebrew
Not living in the southern district of Israel

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00453466

Sponsors and Collaborators

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Investigators


Study Director:	Julie G Cwikel, Ph.D.	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

More Information

Study ID Numbers:	CWHSP-03-2001
First Received:	March 28, 2007
Last Updated:	March 28, 2007
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00453466
Health Authority:	Israel: Ethics Commission

Keywords provided by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev:

women experiencing domestic violence

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on October 20, 2008

Sponsored by:	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Information provided by:	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00453466