Clinical trial NCT00336297: Testing Methods of Screening for Woman Abuse in Health Care Settings.
Official title: Testing Screening Formats for Indicator-Based and Universal Screening Measurements in the Identification of Woman Abuse.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Domestic Violence
Keywords: screening
screening methods
intimate partner violence
Lead sponsor: McMaster University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Ontario Women's Health Council
First posted: 2006-06-13
Enrollment: 2000
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 64
Standard ages: ADULT
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Recent reviews have identified the need for additional high quality exploratory and evaluative research to understand 1) the actual impact on all women of instituting mass screening procedures versus using indicator-based approaches to identifying woman abuse and 2) the extent to which early identification through screening -- either universal or indicator-based is effective in preventing or ameliorating important outcomes. This is a critical first step in developing a larger randomized controlled trial (RCT) which examines the effectiveness of screening in preventing woman abuse, improving quality of life and other associated outcomes. This study prepares for the RCT by testing the optimal method of administration for the two screening instruments that will be used in the RCT. The administration formats are: computer-based screen, paper and pencil screen and face-to-face screen. They study will also determine recruitment rates.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Women aged 18-64 years
* Patients at the health care site
* Able to participate in English
* Able to separate from accompanying person(s)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Too ill to participate
* Unable to separate from accompanying person(s)
* Unable to speak, read, or write English

Primary outcomes:
measure: disclosure rates for past year exposure to intimate partner violence
Secondary outcomes:
measure: participant satisfaction with completing the instruments
measure: missing data
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cambridge
country: Canada
facility: Cambridge Memorial Hospital - Emergency Department
state: Ontario
city: Carlisle
country: Canada
facility: Carlisle Medical Centre
state: Ontario
city: Hamilton
country: Canada
facility: City of Hamilton Public Health and Community Services Department
state: Ontario
city: Hamilton
country: Canada
facility: Hamilton Health Sciences Colposcopy Clinic
state: Ontario
city: London
country: Canada
facility: Victoria Family Medical Centre
state: Ontario
city: London
country: Canada
facility: London Health Sciences - Victoria Hospital Clinic 5A
state: Ontario
city: Simcoe
country: Canada
facility: Norfolk General Hospital - Emergency Department
state: Ontario
Study officials:
affiliation: McMaster University
name: Harriet L MacMillan, MD, MSc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: MacMillan HL, Wathen CN, Jamieson E, Boyle M, McNutt LA, Worster A, Lent B, Webb M; McMaster Violence Against Women Research Group. Approaches to screening for intimate partner violence in health care settings: a randomized trial. JAMA. 2006 Aug 2;296(5):530-6. doi: 10.1001/jama.296.5.530.