E-health Psychological Intervention in Pregnant Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence (eIPV)

NCT ID: NCT04978064

Last Updated: 2023-01-10

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 24 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-10-07
• Study Completion Date: 2022-11-14

Brief Summary

The investigators will assess the need and feasibility of randomising a sufficiently large number of women exposed to IPV during pregnancy in a full-scale future randomised trial. To achieve this, the investigators will:

1. estimate rates of consent to randomization, and the rates of adherence and dropout following randomization (for the use in sample size estimation)

2. determine recruitment duration

3. examine the women's perception about the benefit of the intervention

4. determine the reasons for acceptability, non-adherence, and obstacles to recruitment, randomisation and consent through qualitative interviews

Detailed Description

Introduction. Intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy, a condition as common as obstetrics conditions like gestational diabetes, is associated with maternal and neonatal complications. Systematic detection of IPV is not well established in antenatal screening probably because the effectiveness of protective interventions has not been evaluated. Among mothers exposed to IPV, e-health interventions during pregnancy may be beneficial. Prior to performing a full-scale effectiveness trial for such an intervention, a pilot study is required to assess the need and feasibility of randomising a sufficiently large number of women at exposed to IPV during pregnancy.

Methods. The eIPV trial is a randomised pilot study nested within a cohort of consenting mothers at <12 weeks' gestation who screen positive for IPV in the first antenatal visit and accept an e-health package (psychological counselling by videoconference) in Spain and Denmark. Twenty eligible mothers from the above cohort will be randomised to either intervention or control. The intervention group will receive the e-health package as part of the cohort. The control group will be invited to accept a delay in the intervention (e-health package eight weeks later). After consenting to delay, the control group will provide comparative data without losing the opportunity of obtaining the intervention. The investigators will determine estimates of rates of informed consent to randomization, and the rates of adherence and dropout following randomization. Qualitative interviews will be conducted to examine the women's perception about the benefit of the intervention, reasons for acceptability and non-adherence, and obstacles to recruitment, randomisation and consent. The results will inform the feasibility and variance of key clinical outcome measures for estimation of sample size of the full-scale effectiveness trial.

Comment. The pilot study nested within the cohort study will allow us to obtain information about the rates of IPV in pregnancy, the acceptability of an e-health intervention and the availability of participants for randomisation into a large effectiveness trial.

Conditions

Pregnancy Related; Violence, Gender-Based; Intimate Partner Violence

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Intervention group

Behavioral e-health psychological counselling

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

e-health psychological counselling

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Intervention group: Women positive for IPV who accept the e-Health intervention and who have been randomly allocated in the intervention group will receive the e-health package as the rest of the cohort, as well as the baseline and outcome measurements. The e-health package will include six video counselling sessions by trained providers and the access to a mobile application for designing security plans, an adapted version of the mobile application "My Plan". The content of the six individually tailored sessions will be based on the Dutton's Empowerment Model and the Psychosocial Readiness Model.

Control group: women positive in IPV who accept the e-Health intervention package will be asked for a second consent to receive a delayed intervention (8 weeks later) and to complete as the baseline and outcome measurements. Women can request to leave the control group at any time and to receive the intervention immediately (in which case they data will be part of the cohort study).

Control group

Usual care (delayed behavioral e-health psychological counselling)

Group Type: OTHER

e-health psychological counselling

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Intervention group: Women positive for IPV who accept the e-Health intervention and who have been randomly allocated in the intervention group will receive the e-health package as the rest of the cohort, as well as the baseline and outcome measurements. The e-health package will include six video counselling sessions by trained providers and the access to a mobile application for designing security plans, an adapted version of the mobile application "My Plan". The content of the six individually tailored sessions will be based on the Dutton's Empowerment Model and the Psychosocial Readiness Model.

Control group: women positive in IPV who accept the e-Health intervention package will be asked for a second consent to receive a delayed intervention (8 weeks later) and to complete as the baseline and outcome measurements. Women can request to leave the control group at any time and to receive the intervention immediately (in which case they data will be part of the cohort study).

Interventions

e-health psychological counselling

Intervention group: Women positive for IPV who accept the e-Health intervention and who have been randomly allocated in the intervention group will receive the e-health package as the rest of the cohort, as well as the baseline and outcome measurements. The e-health package will include six video counselling sessions by trained providers and the access to a mobile application for designing security plans, an adapted version of the mobile application "My Plan". The content of the six individually tailored sessions will be based on the Dutton's Empowerment Model and the Psychosocial Readiness Model.

Control group: women positive in IPV who accept the e-Health intervention package will be asked for a second consent to receive a delayed intervention (8 weeks later) and to complete as the baseline and outcome measurements. Women can request to leave the control group at any time and to receive the intervention immediately (in which case they data will be part of the cohort study).

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Pregnant women at <12 weeks gestation, who screen positive in IPV at the first antenatal visit and accept the e-health package.

Exclusion Criteria

• Women who cannot be informed about the study without their partners or other family members knowing
• Women mentally or physically incapacity to participate in the study
• Women below 16 years in Spain or below 18 years in Denmark
• Inability to understand Danish/Spanish
• Lack of internet and electronic device
• Women with extreme severity of IPV. Women selected to participate in the trial in this situation will receive a danger assessment before randomisation and if the severity of IPV is confirmed, they will be routinely treated and supported according to the standard protocol in each country. Women who have same-sex partners will be screened, but their data will not be used for the purpose of this study.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Southern Denmark

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Odense University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Universidad de Granada

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Antonella Ludmila Zapata Calvente

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Khalid S. Khan

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Universidad de Granada

Locations

Odense University Hospital

Odense, , Denmark

University of Granada

Granada, , Spain

Countries

Denmark; Spain

References

Martin-de-Las-Heras S, Velasco C, Luna-Del-Castillo JD, Khan KS. Breastfeeding avoidance following psychological intimate partner violence during pregnancy: a cohort study and multivariate analysis. BJOG. 2019 May;126(6):778-783. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.15592. Epub 2019 Jan 24.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 30575266 (View on PubMed)

Roman-Galvez RM, Martin-Pelaez S, Martinez-Galiano JM, Khan KS, Bueno-Cavanillas A. Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence in Pregnancy: An Umbrella Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jan 15;18(2):707. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18020707.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 33467538 (View on PubMed)

Rasch V, Van TN, Nguyen HTT, Manongi R, Mushi D, Meyrowitsch DW, Gammeltoft T, Wu CS. Intimate partner violence (IPV): The validity of an IPV screening instrument utilized among pregnant women in Tanzania and Vietnam. PLoS One. 2018 Feb 1;13(2):e0190856. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190856. eCollection 2018.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 29389954 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

202167133116

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

20212000-80

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

eIPV

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id