NCT03022370

Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Intervention Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,351 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of KwaZulu · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluates whether the behavioural/structural interventions of Stepping Stones and Creating Futures can reduce the incidence of intimate partner violence in urban informal settlements amongst young people. Half the participants will receive the interventions, while the other half will be in a control wait-list, only receiving the intervention after final data collection.

Conditions

• IPV
• Sexual Violence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Stepping Stones and Creating Futures	Stepping Stones consists of 10 sessions. It seeks to strengthen relationships and to transform views on gender and in the process impact on exposure to, or participation in, gender-based violence and HIV risk. These cover gender and peer influences our actions; sex and love; conception and contraception; STIs and HIV; safer sex and condoms; GBV; motivations for behaviour (including influences of alcohol and poverty); and communication skills. Creating Futures is a facilitated group intervention of eleven sessions. It seeks to strengthen livelihoods. The key sessions include: setting medium term livelihood goals, the need for assets and coping with crises; social resources for livelihoods (trust and community participation); getting and keeping jobs; and savings and spending.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2018-10-01
• Completion: 2018-10-01
• First posted: 2017-01-16
• Last updated: 2020-06-04
• Results posted: 2020-06-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Africa