DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38227.v1
title: Formative Evaluation Phase: The Continuum of Housing Services for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence, Baltimore, Maryland, 2019-2021
title: Version 1

description: Unsafe and unstable housing are among the immediate and longer-term consequences of intimate partner violence (IPV). Significant questions remain as to the most efficient and effective housing models for survivors, particularly for outcomes of revictimization and housing stability. Researchers shared primary data from a prospective study of IPV survivors receiving transitional housing or rapid re-housing at a single program site in Baltimore MD. The study aimed to assess the impact of housing services on safety and housing stability outcomes.
description: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of on-site Transitional Housing (TH) and community-based Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) programs for individuals homeless due to intimate partner violence (IPV).
description: The Survey data were collected at baseline and 3-month intervals through 6-month follow-up via computer assisted
REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture), a secure, web-based application, to maximize participant comfort and confidentiality. Following informed consent, baseline data collection was administered by trained study staff in a private area, or remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic
beginning in March 2020. Follow-up data collection was predominantly conducted remotely; a survey link was sent to email or phone following verification of contact information. Participants received stipend gift cards ($15 at baseline, $20 at 3 months, and $25 at 6 months), a modest package of household items such as washcloths and sponges (baseline only), and information on violence and health resources.
description: This study contained one dataset (DS1) with 955 variables. The data set included questions such as; if the participants had troubles with their landlord, if they have been served eviction notice, if their lives feel stable, their relationship with their partners, if they have been sexually or physically abused by their partners, their health, mental and emotional status.
The dataset also included additional demographic variables such as: age, gender, race, relationship status, income, employment, and educational status of the participants.
description: Presence of Common Scales: 
Short form of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS).
10-item Women's Experience of Battering (WEB) Scale.
20-item Danger Assessment
10-item Housing Instability Index
10-item Connor Davidson Resilience Scale
Patient Health Questionnaire-2
Intimate Partner Violence Stigma Scale
Social Support Questionnaire - Short Form Experience of Discrimination Scale
description: Recruitment was conducted via convenience sampling from June 2019-December 2020. Potential participants were referred by their service coordinator. Eligible participants were 18 years of age or older, self-identified as female, received either RRH or TH support services, experienced physical or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) or fear of partner violence in the year prior to enrolled in Transitional Housing (TH) or community-based Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) and able to complete study activities in English.
Receipt of RRH services was defined as being actively housed and receiving rent checks. These procedures generated a total of number 70 participants (n=59 RRH and n=11 TH), of whom 82.9 percent (58/70) were retained at 3-month follow-up, and 81.4 percent (57/70) were retained at 6-month follow-up. Retention was non- differential to demographics and key baseline housing and violence-related assessments.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Formative Evaluation Phase: The Continuum of Housing Services for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence, Baltimore, Maryland, 2019-2021
description: Intimate partner violence survivors receiving housing support in Baltimore, Maryland.
description: computer-assisted self interview (CASI); face-to-face interview; on-site questionnaire