Impact Evaluation of Training Civil Servants on Violence Against Women in Medellín, Colombia

Capacity of State and Local Actors to Respond to Violence Against Women: Impact Evaluation of Training Civil Servants on Violence Against Women in Medellín (Colombia), Component of the Program "Seguridad Pública"

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the training of civil servants leads to a reduction in the violence suffered by women, as well as in their psychological wellbeing and attitudes towards violence.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Violence Against Women (VAW)
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Training civil servants on attention to violence against women

Detailed Description

The Secretary of Women of Medellin, through the ICONTEC, intends to conduct training to officials of the 22 family commissioners in Medellin. The objective of these trainings is to standardize procedures in order that women do not feel re-victimized and can forward complaints. Since the training will be done in phases in 2014 and there is willingness of relevant stakeholders to generate a random order on which commissioners the training is first performed, it can be done a cluster randomized trial.

We will require all 22 commissioners to be randomly assigned into two groups, one treatment and one control. To implement it is intended to:

• Conduct a baseline survey amongst women who used the services of the commissionaires between June and Septmber 2013, completed the process of care and signed informed consent.
• Training of a randomly chosen set of 11 commissioners will take place between June and September 2014.
• Conduct an endline survey amongst women who used the services of any of the 22 commissionaires between June and September 2014, completed the process of care and signed informed consent.

Women will be contacted through the commissioners. Women who have completed the process of care will be ask whether they want to participate in the study. If they agree, their contact details will transfer to the investigators for the survey to be conducted. This process would be conducted twice for baseline information before beginning the training, and for endline, once half of the first 11 commissioners have been trained.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 975
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Colombia
  • Bogota, Colombia
    • Econometria Consultores

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women who initiate and finalize the process with the comissaries of family

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Trained; Training civil servants in Medellin (Colombia) on attention to violence against women.	Behavioral: Training civil servants on attention to violence against women; The Secretary of Women of Medellin, through the ICONTEC, intends to conduct training to officials of the 22 family commissioners in Medellin. The objective of these trainings is to standardize procedures in order that women do not feel re-victimized and can forward complaints.
No Intervention: Non trained

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Occurrence of violence	The outcome will be measure through a survey to women who used the services of the commissionaires, completed the process of care and signed informed consent	3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) on violence and care pathways	The outcome will be measure through a survey to women who used the services of the commissionaires, completed the process of care and signed informed consent	Average of 8 months after the complaint was presented at the comissaries
Psychological well-being (self-acceptance, positive relationships, autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, purpose in life)	The outcome will be measure through a survey to women who used the services of the commissionaires, completed the process of care and signed informed consent	Average of 8 months after the complaint was presented at the comissaries
Time resolution of cases	The outcome will be measured through secondary data of the commissaries with information between the time of the initiation of the complaint and the completed the process of care.	Average of 8 months after the complaint was presented at the comissaries

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Econometría Consultores
• Collaborators: Inter-American Development Bank

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: May 1, 2014
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 1, 2015
• Study Completion (Actual): June 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 28, 2014
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 2, 2014
• First Posted (Estimate): June 3, 2014

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): February 7, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 6, 2017
• Last Verified: February 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: ATN/MG-13064-RG ECO 577-3