DOVE Home Visit Program is a brochure based intervention delivery by public health nurses which aims to prevent and reduce intimate partner violence against pregnant and postpartum women and their infants. The purpose of the study is to test the effect of home visits on reducing domestic violence and improving the lives of pregnant women and their children.
Outcomes will provide intervention efficacy data about a public health nurse home visit intervention aimed at reducing and preventing intimate partner violence and children's exposure to IVP as well as prospective information about patterns of intimate partner violence.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
239
The perinatal public health nurse home visit intervention also includes a trifold brochure, printed on 8X10 inch paper, with 6 panels, that can be read with the woman in an interactive manner so that the woman is encouraged to describe her experiences and choose her options as they proceed. Participants will receive three prenatal and three postpartum sessions. The first prenatal sessions will be given during the first (enrollment), second, and third trimesters, with at least three weeks between sessions. Women entering the study after the first trimester will receive the initial session at enrollment, with two subsequent sessions spread out over the remainder of the scheduled prenatal home visitation program sessions.
The current protocol in use by the participating health departments when a women screens positive for intimate partner violence (IPV), current or history within the last year.
Baltimore City Health Department
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services; Missouri Community Based Home Visiting Program and Lutheran and Family Children's Services in Columbia and Springfield
Columbia, Missouri, United States
Reducing children's exposure to Intimate Partner Violence
Time frame: Baseline (entry into the study), birth of the infant, and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after the infant's birth.
Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence
Time frame: Baseline (entry into the study), birth of the infant, and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after the infant's birth.
Reducing Intimate Partner Violence
Time frame: Baseline (entry into the study), birth of the infant, and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after the infant's birth.
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