NCT01054898

Effectiveness of a Telephone Intervention to Improve the Mental Health of Abused Women

A RCT to Test the Effectiveness of a Telephone Intervention to Improve the Mental Health of Community Dwelling Women Abused by Their Intimate Partners

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if a telephone social support and empowerment intervention is more effective than usual community services in improving the mental health of community-dwelling women abused by their intimate partners.

Detailed description

Depression is one of the most common mental health sequelae of intimate partner violence (IPV). Although a range of interventions have been tried to improve the mental health of women survivors of IPV, the results are inconclusive. In this trial, a 12-week advocacy intervention consisting of empowerment and telephone social support is provided to abused Chinese women in a community setting. Usual community services provide the control condition.

Conditions

• Battered Women

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	advocacy intervention	A 12-week telephone social support and empowerment intervention consisting of empowerment training, scheduled weekly telephone calls, and 24-hour access to a hotline for abused women
BEHAVIORAL	usual community services	standard care for abused women in the community

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-02-01
• Primary completion: 2008-12-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2010-01-22
• Last updated: 2015-05-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China