IPV Screening Tool
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Video Counselling & app based safety planning
Women survivors of intimate partner violence talk about using e-health during pregnancy: a focus group study
Pregnancy is a period of particular vulnerability to experience intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW). eHealth strategies have been implemented to identify women exposed to IPVAW and to combat the abuse and empower them, but there is a lack of evidence on the use of these strategies among pregnant women. This work aims to identify the needs, concerns and preferences of survivors about the use of eHealth strategies to counsel and empower pregnant victims of IPVAW in antenatal care.
Ethical Approval
The ethical approval process at the Danish (RSD-OUH) and Spanish (UGR) sites is demonstrated by the project descriptions submitted along with applications to their respective Ethics Committees. The project descriptions provide information on the background of the project, its aims, methodology with sub-studies, needs assessment, the anticipated risks, access to patient information, informed consent, impact, funding, the ethics, safety, and security of the project, the members of the research team, and relevant references. Not all sections are described in both the RSD-OUH and the UGR applications.
At UGR ethical approval has been received for the screening solution while approval for the video counseling solution is still pending. At RSD-OUH the screening solution has been implemented throughout the region and thus no ethical approval is needed, and the ethics committee determined that approval was unnecessary for the video counseling intervention.
Application forms and decision letters from the committees are provided in the appendix (these are provided in the local languages).
Joint Training Workshop
This document provides a report on the Joint Training Workshop, which was conducted on February 1, 2021 as part of the counsellors’ training and the preparation for the STOP intervention.
The purpose of the workshop was to provide training as well as an inspirational session to the counsellors – the Danish midwives and Spanish psychologist – who are responsible for carrying out the counselling sessions with women exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV).
The participants at the workshop were the Danish midwives, the Spanish psychologist, and key project members.
The keynote speakers invited to the workshop were professors Jacquelyn Campbell and Nancy E. Glass from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, United States of America, who are experts in the field of implementing online interventions for women exposed to IPV.
The workshop provided an excellent opportunity to learn from researchers and scientists who have implemented similar interventions.
Jacquelyn Campbell, having worked with pregnant women exposed to IPV, spoke about the target group for the STOP-project, and on how to work with the women in their own homes.
Nancy E. Glass, having developed a safety planning app, spoke about the content and implementation of a safety planning app.
Participatory Workshop
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.
Multidisciplinary Assessment & Feasibility Study
Nothing found.
Feasibility of continuation and upscaling
Women survivors of intimate partner violence talk about using e-health during pregnancy: a focus group study
Pregnancy is a period of particular vulnerability to experience intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW). eHealth strategies have been implemented to identify women exposed to IPVAW and to combat the abuse and empower them, but there is a lack of evidence on the use of these strategies among pregnant women. This work aims to identify the needs, concerns and preferences of survivors about the use of eHealth strategies to counsel and empower pregnant victims of IPVAW in antenatal care.
Ethical Approval
The ethical approval process at the Danish (RSD-OUH) and Spanish (UGR) sites is demonstrated by the project descriptions submitted along with applications to their respective Ethics Committees. The project descriptions provide information on the background of the project, its aims, methodology with sub-studies, needs assessment, the anticipated risks, access to patient information, informed consent, impact, funding, the ethics, safety, and security of the project, the members of the research team, and relevant references. Not all sections are described in both the RSD-OUH and the UGR applications.
At UGR ethical approval has been received for the screening solution while approval for the video counseling solution is still pending. At RSD-OUH the screening solution has been implemented throughout the region and thus no ethical approval is needed, and the ethics committee determined that approval was unnecessary for the video counseling intervention.
Application forms and decision letters from the committees are provided in the appendix (these are provided in the local languages).
Joint Training Workshop
This document provides a report on the Joint Training Workshop, which was conducted on February 1, 2021 as part of the counsellors’ training and the preparation for the STOP intervention.
The purpose of the workshop was to provide training as well as an inspirational session to the counsellors – the Danish midwives and Spanish psychologist – who are responsible for carrying out the counselling sessions with women exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV).
The participants at the workshop were the Danish midwives, the Spanish psychologist, and key project members.
The keynote speakers invited to the workshop were professors Jacquelyn Campbell and Nancy E. Glass from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, United States of America, who are experts in the field of implementing online interventions for women exposed to IPV.
The workshop provided an excellent opportunity to learn from researchers and scientists who have implemented similar interventions.
Jacquelyn Campbell, having worked with pregnant women exposed to IPV, spoke about the target group for the STOP-project, and on how to work with the women in their own homes.
Nancy E. Glass, having developed a safety planning app, spoke about the content and implementation of a safety planning app.
Participatory Workshop
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.
Management & Communication
STOP Consortium Meeting December 2020
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.
STOP Consortium Meeting September 2020 – Kick Off Meeting
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.
Nothing found.
Nothing found.
Deliverables,IPV Screening Tool
STOP – Danish screening tool for IPV
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.
Video Counselling & app based safety planning
Report on end-user needs
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.
Deliverables,IPV Screening Tool
STOP – Spanish screening tool for IPV
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.
Deliverables,Multidisciplinary Assessment & Feasibility Study
STOP Data Collection
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.
Deliverables,Management & Communication
STOP Communication Platforms
As part of the STOP, a report has been prepared to map and present the communication platforms for the project.
Management & Communication,Deliverables,News
STOP Consortium Meeting December 2020
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.
Management & Communication,Deliverables,News
STOP Consortium Meeting September 2020 – Kick Off Meeting
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.
IPV Screening Tool
Nothing found.
Video Counselling & app based safety planning
Strenghts and limitations of the pilot RCT
The ethical approval process at the Danish (RSD-OUH) and Spanish (UGR) sites is demonstrated by the project descriptions submitted along with applications to their respective Ethics Committees. The project descriptions provide information on the background of the project, its aims, methodology with sub-studies, needs assessment, the anticipated risks, access to patient information, informed consent, impact, funding, the ethics, safety, and security of the project, the members of the research team, and relevant references. Not all sections are described in both the RSD-OUH and the UGR applications.
At UGR ethical approval has been received for the screening solution while approval for the video counseling solution is still pending. At RSD-OUH the screening solution has been implemented throughout the region and thus no ethical approval is needed, and the ethics committee determined that approval was unnecessary for the video counseling intervention.
Application forms and decision letters from the committees are provided in the appendix (these are provided in the local languages).
Video Consultations and Safety App Targeting Pregnant Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Denmark and Spain: Nested Cohort Intervention Study (STOP Study)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy is a public health issue with wide-ranging consequences for both the mother and fetus, and interventions are needed. Therefore, the Stop Intimate Partner Violence in Pregnancy (STOP) cohort was established with the overall aim to identify pregnant women exposed to IPV through digital screening and offer women screening positive for IPV a digital supportive intervention.
Multidisciplinary Assessment & Feasibility Study
Nothing found.
Feasibility of continuation and upscaling
Strenghts and limitations of the pilot RCT
The ethical approval process at the Danish (RSD-OUH) and Spanish (UGR) sites is demonstrated by the project descriptions submitted along with applications to their respective Ethics Committees. The project descriptions provide information on the background of the project, its aims, methodology with sub-studies, needs assessment, the anticipated risks, access to patient information, informed consent, impact, funding, the ethics, safety, and security of the project, the members of the research team, and relevant references. Not all sections are described in both the RSD-OUH and the UGR applications.
At UGR ethical approval has been received for the screening solution while approval for the video counseling solution is still pending. At RSD-OUH the screening solution has been implemented throughout the region and thus no ethical approval is needed, and the ethics committee determined that approval was unnecessary for the video counseling intervention.
Application forms and decision letters from the committees are provided in the appendix (these are provided in the local languages).
Video Consultations and Safety App Targeting Pregnant Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Denmark and Spain: Nested Cohort Intervention Study (STOP Study)
Intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy is a public health issue with wide-ranging consequences for both the mother and fetus, and interventions are needed. Therefore, the Stop Intimate Partner Violence in Pregnancy (STOP) cohort was established with the overall aim to identify pregnant women exposed to IPV through digital screening and offer women screening positive for IPV a digital supportive intervention.
Management & Communication
Consortium Meeting in beautiful Granada
On November 25-26, the STOP consortium reached quite a milestone. Not so much a milestone related to the project activities but a milestone for the collaboration.
After working together for more than a year, we finally managed to meet each other in person for the first physical consortium meeting in the project lifetime. The consortium met in beautiful Granada for a two-day meeting and Granada was the perfect location as the city celebrated the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25th.
This consortium meeting focused on the current status of the project and we also started planning for 2022 which will be a(nother) busy year in the STOP project. During 2022, we will offer our services to thousands of women across the Region of Southern Denmark and Andalucia. We will also finalise the data collection and start working on the publication of our results and experiences from the project.
We look forward to sharing it!
STOP Consortium Meeting November 2021
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.
Nothing found.
Nothing found.
Deliverables,IPV Screening Tool
STOP – Danish screening tool for IPV
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.
Video Counselling & app based safety planning
Report on end-user needs
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.
Deliverables,IPV Screening Tool
STOP – Spanish screening tool for IPV
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.
Deliverables,Multidisciplinary Assessment & Feasibility Study
STOP Data Collection
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.
Deliverables,Management & Communication
STOP Communication Platforms
As part of the STOP, a report has been prepared to map and present the communication platforms for the project.
Management & Communication,Deliverables,News
STOP Consortium Meeting December 2020
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.
Management & Communication,Deliverables,News
STOP Consortium Meeting September 2020 – Kick Off Meeting
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.