Clinical trial NCT02153554: Impact Evaluation of Training Civil Servants on Violence Against Women in Medellín, Colombia
Official title: Capacity of State and Local Actors to Respond to Violence Against Women: Impact Evaluation of Training Civil Servants on Violence Against Women in Medellín (Colombia), Component of the Program "Seguridad Pública"
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Violence Against Women (VAW)
Lead sponsor: Econometría Consultores
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Inter-American Development Bank
First posted: 2014-06-03
Enrollment: 975
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to determine whether the training of civil servants leads to a reduction in the violence suffered by women, as well as in their psychological wellbeing and attitudes towards violence.

Detailed description: The Secretary of Women of Medellin, through the ICONTEC, intends to conduct training to officials of the 22 family commissioners in Medellin. The objective of these trainings is to standardize procedures in order that women do not feel re-victimized and can forward complaints. Since the training will be done in phases in 2014 and there is willingness of relevant stakeholders to generate a random order on which commissioners the training is first performed, it can be done a cluster randomized trial.

We will require all 22 commissioners to be randomly assigned into two groups, one treatment and one control. To implement it is intended to:

* Conduct a baseline survey amongst women who used the services of the commissionaires between June and Septmber 2013, completed the process of care and signed informed consent.
* Training of a randomly chosen set of 11 commissioners will take place between June and September 2014.
* Conduct an endline survey amongst women who used the services of any of the 22 commissionaires between June and September 2014, completed the process of care and signed informed consent.

Women will be contacted through the commissioners. Women who have completed the process of care will be ask whether they want to participate in the study. If they agree, their contact details will transfer to the investigators for the survey to be conducted. This process would be conducted twice for baseline information before beginning the training, and for endline, once half of the first 11 commissioners have been trained.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Women who initiate and finalize the process with the comissaries of family

Primary outcomes:
measure: Occurrence of violence
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) on violence and care pathways
timeFrame: Average of 8 months after the complaint was presented at the comissaries
measure: Psychological well-being (self-acceptance, positive relationships, autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, purpose in life)
timeFrame: Average of 8 months after the complaint was presented at the comissaries
measure: Time resolution of cases
timeFrame: Average of 8 months after the complaint was presented at the comissaries
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bogota
country: Colombia
facility: Econometria Consultores
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