NCT00453466

Group Empowerment of Battered Women as a Tool for Violence Prevention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: —
• Sponsor: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Intimate partner violence against women is a significant global health problem. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that a group intervention based on empowerment theory of Paolo Freire would be effective as a means to reduce the extent and prevent violence among women whose partners were violent toward them.

Detailed description

A randomized controlled trial (N=141) with two control groups (one individual psychotherapeutic treatment and the other a usual care group treatment) was conducted in a violence treatment center in the South of Israel The treatment protocol designed to empower battered women (EBW) was conducted with 12 groups over a period of two years. Assessments were made before, immediately following and at an 8 month follow up following the intervention.

Conditions

• Domestic Violence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	EBW group intervention to empower battered women

Timeline

• Start date: 2001-12-01
• Completion: 2004-12-01
• First posted: 2007-03-29
• Last updated: 2007-03-29