Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation Program (DOVE)

Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation Program - DOVE

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Domestic Violence
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Public Health Nurse Home Visit; Behavioral: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Protocol

Detailed Description

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
• Enrollment (Actual): 239
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21205
      • Baltimore City Health Department
  • Missouri
    • Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65211
      • Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services; Missouri Community Based Home Visiting Program and Lutheran and Family Children's Services in Columbia and Springfield

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant women 31 weeks or less gestation, over age 18, with a history of intimate partner violence within the past 2 years, and who are willing to participate in the home visit program

Exclusion Criteria:

Age 17 or less. History of partner violence beyond 2 years. Not participating in home visit program. Does not speak English

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: 1; Dove Intervention	Behavioral: Public Health Nurse Home Visit; 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.
Active Comparator: 2; Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Protocol	Behavioral: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Protocol; 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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Reducing children's exposure to Intimate Partner Violence	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	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	Baseline (entry into the study), birth of the infant, and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months after the infant's birth.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University
• Collaborators: National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Phyllis Sharps, PhD, RN, Johns Hopkins University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Kalra N, Hooker L, Reisenhofer S, Di Tanna GL, Garcia-Moreno C. Training healthcare providers to respond to intimate partner violence against women. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 May 31;5(5):CD012423. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012423.pub2.
• Sharps PW, Bullock LF, Campbell JC, Alhusen JL, Ghazarian SR, Bhandari SS, Schminkey DL. Domestic Violence Enhanced Perinatal Home Visits: The DOVE Randomized Clinical Trial. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2016 Nov;25(11):1129-1138. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2015.5547. Epub 2016 May 20.
• Sharps P, Alhusen JL, Bullock L, Bhandari S, Ghazarian S, Udo IE, Campbell J. Engaging and retaining abused women in perinatal home visitation programs. Pediatrics. 2013 Nov;132 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):S134-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-1021L.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: February 1, 2006
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 1, 2010
• Study Completion (Actual): November 1, 2011

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 23, 2007
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 24, 2007
• First Posted (Estimate): April 25, 2007

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): April 3, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 31, 2015
• Last Verified: March 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: NR009093; 1R01NR009093-01A2 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)