Publications And Outcomes

As part of the STOP, a report has been prepared to present the Danish screening tool to be used in the screening for IPV among pregnant women in the Danish site.

The report provides a description of the Danish screening programme In the report, you will also find screenshots of the different sections of the electronic questionnaire sent to all pregnant women in the Region of Southern Denmark.

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.

As part of the STOP, a report has been prepared to present the Spanish screening tool to be used in the screening for IPV among pregnant women in the Spanish site.

The report provides a description of the electronic Spanish screening application, which has been developed to identify pregnant women exposed to intimate partner violence. In the report, you will also find screenshots of the different sections in the app such as the introduction to the project and the included questionnaires (AAS, WAST-short, and ISA.

As part of the STOP, a report has been prepared to present the data collection across the two sites.

The report provides an overview of the data collection in the context of WP4. Here, you will find an overview of the study population followed by a description of the STOP interventions and training of midwives and psychologist for the data collection. Furthermore, it provides a description of the qualitative data collection, the management of the data and monitoring of the intervention, and ethical considerations in relation to the data collection.

As part of the STOP, a report has been prepared to map and present the communication platforms for the project.

The second consortium meeting of the STOP project was a virtual meeting and took place on December 17 and 18, 2020. During the meeting, the progress of each work package was discussed. The project’s Advisory Board attended the meeting and provided feedback and suggestions to the consortium.

During the STOP project’s Kick Off, the participants discussed and planned the work to be done in each work package. The practicalities of the different screening process and the screening tools and cutoff levels were debated. The timing of the training sessions for midwives was considered; both the Danish and the Spanish teams expressed concern that the original timing of the sessions was premature and that it would benefit the project to move the training closer to when the screening begins. The current flare-up of COVID-19 has further emphasized this need. Issues with inclusion and exclusion criteria were debated, and it was suggested that the involved midwives may have to play a larger role in determining whom to include. The features of the safety planning app were discussed in detail, and based on perceived applicability and usability, the participants agreed on which to include and which to scrap. As the STOP project could be an excellent opportunity to gain better insight into the prevalence of IPV, different studies to be part of the project were presented, along with a strategy for a multidisciplinary assessment the effects of STOP. The upcoming feasibility study and preparation of further studies on IPV was only briefly discussed, as this work is still some time away.