NCT06252909

Treating Common Mental Disorders in Women in Mozambique by Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Couples

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 108 (estimated)
• Sponsor: New York State Psychiatric Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Adapting mental health treatments to address modifiable interpersonal problems has the potential to improve and sustain outcomes in low-resource settings where treatment gaps persist. This K23 Award will prepare the candidate to become an independent investigator with high-impact public health research and expertise in couple-based interventions that address interrelated mental health problems and intimate partner violence in couples by gaining expertise in engagement and treatment of men, adapting an evidence-based treatment for common mental disorders to address IPV in couples, designing and conducting randomized controlled trials with couples, and professional skills development. This work has applicability for low-resource low-income countries and US populations that experience couple-based violence and the mental health treatment gap. With its focus on intimate partners, the intervention also has the potential to benefit health and wellbeing of children.

Conditions

• Depression
• Anxiety
• PTSD
• Intimate Partner Violence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Couples	Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Couples (IPT-C) consists of 8 weekly conjoint sessions. The clinical goals are to "promote resolution of the role dispute via renegotiation of role relations between the marriage partners" and improve common mental disorders in the woman. Like Interpersonal Psychotherapy, IPT-C has an initiation phase (Session 1-2), middle phase (Sessions 3-6), and termination phase (Sessions 7-8).
BEHAVIORAL	Interpersonal Psychotherapy (Individual)	Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is an evidence-based treatment to reduce depression and other common mental disorders. It focuses on helping patients resolve interpersonal problems of disagreements, loneliness, life changes, and grief, and/or change their orientation to the problem.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-01
• Primary completion: 2025-09-15
• Completion: 2025-11-30
• First posted: 2024-02-12
• Last updated: 2025-03-20