Publications And Outcomes

Enclosed in this document is a short description of the Spanish and Danish participatory workshops, the agenda for the participatory workshops and a short description of the participants including a signed attendance sheet.

The purpose of the participatory workshops was to gather information and input from relevant stakeholders in both Spain and Denmark in order to develop the STOP intervention covering both the Video Counselling and Safety Planning app.

This document contains the findings from the Spanish and Danish focus group interviews with the NGO’s and the women exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV). The purpose of the focus group interviews was to gather information and input from relevant stakeholders (NGO’s) in both Spain and Denmark in order to develop the STOP intervention covering both the Video Counselling and Safety Planning app. The findings have been very important in the development of the STOP-intervention.

The focus group interview with the Spanish NGO’s was completed on September 30, 2020 with six participants. The focus group interview with the Spanish women exposed to IPV was completed on October 6, 2020, with five participants. The focus group interview with the Danish NGO’s was completed on September 8, 2020, with three participants. This was followed by three additional interviews with NGO’s on the October 2, 2020, October 5, 2020 and November 2, 2020. The interview with the Danish woman exposed to IPV was completed on November 24, 2020.

This document provides a report on the training of counsellors including the Danish midwives and Spanish psychologist. The purpose of the training was to both prepare the counsellors for the STOP-intervention and to train them in conducting video counselling with pregnant women exposed to IPV.

The training of the 10 Danish midwives included:

Three days of training between January 11-13, 2021,
Two hands-on training sessions at end of February and in the beginning of March, 2021,
Follow up sessions (planned for when the intervention has been launched).

The training of the Spanish psychologist has included:

Two days of training between January 21-22, 2021,
Hands-on training sessions in February 2021,
Follow up sessions (planned for when the intervention has been launched).

Due to the Covid-19 related restrictions, all training has been conducted virtually, except for the two hands-on training sessions with the Danish midwives in February/March.

The purpose of this document is to give a report on the manual developed to conduct video counselling in the STOP-project.
The manual is developed to support the counsellors and it provides information including workflow, basic guidance and methods related to the different sessions in the intervention.
There are minor differences between the interventions in Spain and Denmark. Therefore, there has been developed two manuals: one for the Danish midwives and one for the Spanish psychologist in order to align the manual to the context where it is used. Both manuals include guidelines and information for the situations where the counsellor is in contact with the women exposed to IPV: pre-session, video counselling and postintervention evaluation.

We are now fifteen months into the STOP project and have managed to get to know each other but meeting in person should ease reflections and discussions. Thanks to the Spanish team for organizing it.

The third consortium meeting in the STOP project was decided in December as an unofficial, additional consortium meeting. The spring and summer of 2021 is a key period in the project and with our next consortium meeting scheduled for late November, the project group wanted this opportunity to check in on the progress of STOP and help keep momentum.

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.