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A web-based intervention for abused women: the New Zealand isafe randomised controlled trial protocol

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Koziol-McLain, Jane, Vandal, Alain C, Nada-Raja, Shyamala, Wilson, Denise, Glass, Nancy E, Eden, Karen B, McLean, Christine, Dobbs, Terry +1 more·2015·BMC Public Health

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) and its associated negative mental health consequences are significant for women in New Zealand and internationally. One of the most widely recommended interventions is safety planning. However, few women experiencing violence access specialist services for safety planning. A safety decision aid, weighing the dangers of leaving or staying in an abusive relationship, gives women the opportunity to prioritise, plan and take action to increase safety for themselves and their children. This randomised controlled trial is testing the effectiveness of an innovative, interactive web-based safety decision aid. The trial is an international collaborative concurrent replication of a USA trial (IRIS study NCT01312103), regionalised for the Aotearoa New Zealand culture and offers fully automated online trial recruitment, eligibility screening and consent. METHODS/DESIGN: In a fully automated web-based trial (isafe) 340 abused women will be randomly assigned in equal numbers to a safety decision aid intervention or usual safety planning control website. Intervention components include: (a) safety priority setting, (b) danger assessment and (c) an individually tailored safety action plan. Self-reported outcome measures are collected at baseline and 3, 6, and 12-months post-baseline. Primary outcomes are depression (measured by Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, Revised) and IPV exposure (measured by Severity Violence Against Women Scale) at 12 months post-baseline. Secondary outcomes include PTSD, psychological abuse, decisional conflict, safety behaviors and danger in the relationship. DISCUSSION: This trial will provide much-needed information on the potential relationships among safety planning, improved mental health, reduced violence as well as decreased decisional conflict related to safety in the abusive relationship. The novel web-based safety decision aid intervention may provide a cost-effective, easily accessed safety-planning resource that can be translated into clinical and community practice by multiple health disciplines and advocates. The trial will also provide information about how women in abusive relationships safely access safety information and resources through the Internet. Finally, the trial will inform other research teams on the feasibility and acceptability of fully automated recruitment, eligibility screening, consent and retention procedures. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Trial registered on 03 July 2012 on the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12612000708853 .

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  • The CESD has good internal consistency reliability and has been used with survivors of domestic violence, with Cronbach's α > 0.90 in community samples.

    “The CESD, a 20-item scale to measure symptoms of depression, has been used in depression epidemiology in Community Mental Health Assessment Surveys, has good internal consistency reliability, and has been used to assess levels of depression in cross-cultural studies with survivors of domestic violence (Li & Hicks, 2008) with Cronbach's α > 0.90 in community samples (Koziol-McLain et al., 2015).”

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Koziol-McLain, J., Vandal, A. C., Nada-Raja, S., Wilson, D., Glass, N. E., Eden, K. B., McLean, C., Dobbs, T., & Case, J.
Affiliations
  • Auckland University of Technology (NZ)
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • Oregon Health & Science University (US)
Venue
BMC Public Health
Published
2015-01-31
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
56-56
ISSN
1471-2458 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2025623274
Cited by
48
References
62
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 3
FWCI
8.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • BMC Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Tuwhera (Auckland University of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
  • Health Research Council of New Zealand
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Keywords
intimate partner violence, safety planning, online intervention, battered women, decisional conflict, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychological violence, violence against women, New Zealand
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Australia, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Decision Making, Depression, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Mental Health, Middle Aged, New Zealand, Research Design, Safety, Spouse Abuse, Risk Assessment, Battered Women, Internet, Young Adult

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