N25 - STOP Dissemination Seminar
As a prelude to N25 - the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women - preliminary results of STOP were presented to the public at a dissemination seminar at University of Granada on November 24, 2022. Besides the Spanish and Danish project teams, participants were local stakeholders, including Instituto Andaluz de la Mujer, Ayuntamiento de Granada, Asociación de Psicología Feminista, healthcare workers from the Andalusian public health systems. The event was covered by regional news media, including CanalSurMas regional television and GranadaHoy.
TV coverage (@7:31 min): https://www.canalsurmas.es/videos/detail/60982?share
Newspaper coverage:
Screening tools ready for use
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The Spanish screening tool is an electronic application for tablets and the Danish screening is an electronic screening survey. Both screenings programs are developed to identify pregnant women exposed to IPV in antenatal care centres for recruitment into the video counselling project. The screening tool in both Spain and Denmark includes basic demographic data and validated questionnaires suitable for antenatal care settings (the AAS, ISA and/or the WAST-Short). In Spain the recording of provision of the women’s interest in participating in the screening and the counselling; her informed written consent for the screening according to the requirements from the Andalusian Ethical Committee; and follow-up data.
The two screenings programs have been developed in a collaboration between the two countries. In order to share knowledge and take each individual country and population into account, which also demonstrate the motive for the tools few differences.
Find the deliverable here: STOP D2-5 vs 2
Report on end-user needs
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A report on the end-user needs has been developed, including the technical specification for video-based counselling service and app based support in the STOP-project.
In order to develop the STOP intervention, focus group interviews, individual interviews and workshops were conducted with relevant stakeholders in both Denmark and Spain. The following were identified as the main aspects where the women are in need of support:
- Acknowledgement: The pregnant woman does not see herself as a victim of violence and finds it hard to accept.
- Ambivalent emotions towards the partner: They have a lot of dreams and hopes regarding their relationship, and this makes it hard to accept that their “life project” to create a family is broken.
- Fear of the system: Fear of losing custody of their child if they communicate their situation.
- Resources: Worries about being on their own, having to do everything on their own and without financial support from the partner.
- Low self-esteem: Finding it difficult to make decisions and taking actions to change their situation.
- Isolation: Rebuilding their connections and relations in the world, helping them identify their network and learn about the resources available for help.
The user needs were translated into technical specifications for the video counselling software and the safety planning app.
Safety app finalized for STOP
The safety planning app that accompanies the video counseling has been finalized and is introduced to the women during their pre-sessions.
A safety plan is a personal and practical plan for the woman to minimize the risk of danger and exposure to violence. The purpose of a safety plan is to protect the woman in the best way possible from future violence. Creating a safety plan is a natural next step after having made a danger assessment of the woman.
The features of the app are emergency contacts, warning signs, strategies, general knowledge about domestic violence, a quick message function, a share my location function, a resource function, a diary, and general settings. The app is free, and available for iOS and Android. Each woman will download the app on her own smartphone from the App Store or the Google Play store and it will be available through the duration of the STOP project.