Clinical trial NCT03469739: Types of Intimate Partner Violence and Women's Health
Official title: Types of Intimate Partner Violence and Women's Health: Findings From the WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Intimate Partner Violence
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Domestic Violence
Keywords: Intimate Partner Violence
Lead sponsor: University of Bristol
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-03-19
Enrollment: 29990
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 15
Maximum age (years): 49
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: This study consists of further analysis of 29,990 interviews conducted with women in 12 different countries coordinated by the World Health Organisation. They report in most sites around 1500 women between 15 and 49 years old were interviewed. Countries included were Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Japan, Maldives, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand and the United Republic of Tanzania.

Brief summary: This study uses data from 29,990 women from 12 different countries collected by the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence to capture the effect of different types, frequency and timing of IPV on self-reported health, symptoms and suicidal behaviours.

Detailed description: Intimate partner violence (IPV) has detrimental effects on physical and mental health, risks to children and is associated with wider societal and healthcare costs. Previous analysis of the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence found significant associations between physical and sexual IPV and self-reported ill-health, symptomatology and suicidal behaviours.

Real experience of IPV can comprise different combinations of emotional, physical and sexual abuse, and different timings and frequencies of these. A more nuanced testing of exposure to these different combinations of IPV and associations with health is needed.

This study uses data from 29,990 women from 12 different countries collected by the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence to capture the effect of different combination types, frequency and timing of IPV on self-reported health, symptoms and suicidal behaviours.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* The WHO report that in most sites, a representative sample of women was obtained using a two-stage cluster sampling scheme to select households and then only one woman per household was randomly selected per household for interview.

Exclusion Criteria:

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Primary outcomes:
measure: Participant description of their current overall state of health
timeFrame: Preceding 4 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Participant reported health in the last 4 weeks- problems walking around, doing usual activities, pain or discomfort, problems with memory or concentration, dizziness or vaginal discharge. Measured by questionnaire.
timeFrame: Preceding 4 weeks
measure: Emotional distress. Measured by questionnaire of 20 different symptoms of emotional distress. SRQ-20 (score of 20 different symptoms of emotional distress with yes/no answers)
timeFrame: Preceding 4 weeks
measure: Participant reported ever suicidal thoughts or attempts; measured by questionnaire.
timeFrame: Up to 49 years
measure: Participant reported medication used for sleep/ pain; measured by questionnaire.
timeFrame: Preceding 4 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Bristol
name: Gene Feder, MD FRCGP
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: University of Bristol
name: Lucy C Potter, MB ChB
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Ellsberg M, Jansen HA, Heise L, Watts CH, Garcia-Moreno C; WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women Study Team. Intimate partner violence and women's physical and mental health in the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence: an observational study. Lancet. 2008 Apr 5;371(9619):1165-72. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60522-X.
citation: Garcia-Moreno C, Jansen HA, Ellsberg M, Heise L, Watts CH; WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women Study Team. Prevalence of intimate partner violence: findings from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence. Lancet. 2006 Oct 7;368(9543):1260-9. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69523-8.