Clinical trial NCT00465556: Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation Program (DOVE)
Official title: Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation Program - DOVE
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Domestic Violence
Lead sponsor: Johns Hopkins University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
First posted: 2007-04-25
Enrollment: 239
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: DOVE Home Visit Program is a brochure based intervention delivery by public health nurses which aims to prevent and reduce intimate partner violence against pregnant and postpartum women and their infants.

The purpose of the study is to test the effect of home visits on reducing domestic violence and improving the lives of pregnant women and their children.

Detailed description: Outcomes will provide intervention efficacy data about a public health nurse home visit intervention aimed at reducing and preventing intimate partner violence and children's exposure to IVP as well as prospective information about patterns of intimate partner violence.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Pregnant women 31 weeks or less gestation, over age 18, with a history of intimate partner violence within the past 2 years, and who are willing to participate in the home visit program

Exclusion Criteria:

Age 17 or less. History of partner violence beyond 2 years. Not participating in home visit program. Does not speak English

Primary outcomes:
measure: Reducing children's exposure to Intimate Partner Violence
timeFrame: Baseline (entry into the study), birth of the infant, and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after the infant's birth.
measure: Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence
timeFrame: Baseline (entry into the study), birth of the infant, and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after the infant's birth.
measure: Reducing Intimate Partner Violence
timeFrame: Baseline (entry into the study), birth of the infant, and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after the infant's birth.
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Baltimore
country: United States
facility: Baltimore City Health Department
state: Maryland
city: Columbia
country: United States
facility: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services; Missouri Community Based Home Visiting Program and Lutheran and Family Children's Services in Columbia and Springfield
state: Missouri
Study officials:
affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
name: Phyllis Sharps, PhD, RN
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Kalra N, Hooker L, Reisenhofer S, Di Tanna GL, Garcia-Moreno C. Training healthcare providers to respond to intimate partner violence against women. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 May 31;5(5):CD012423. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012423.pub2.
citation: Sharps PW, Bullock LF, Campbell JC, Alhusen JL, Ghazarian SR, Bhandari SS, Schminkey DL. Domestic Violence Enhanced Perinatal Home Visits: The DOVE Randomized Clinical Trial. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2016 Nov;25(11):1129-1138. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2015.5547. Epub 2016 May 20.
citation: Sharps P, Alhusen JL, Bullock L, Bhandari S, Ghazarian S, Udo IE, Campbell J. Engaging and retaining abused women in perinatal home visitation programs. Pediatrics. 2013 Nov;132 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):S134-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-1021L.