Combating Violence Against Women

The Effect of the Programme on Combating Violence Against Women on Domestic Violence Awareness and Gender Attitudes: A Randomized Controlled Trial

The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of the program to combat violence against women on domestic violence awareness and gender role attitudes.

Study Overview

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Conditions: Nursing Role
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Experimental: Experimental: Combating violence against women

Detailed Description

Personal Information Form, Domestic Violence Awareness Scale and Gender Role Attitude Scale will be used in collecting research data.

After the Personal Information Form, Domestic Violence Awareness Scale and Gender Role Attitude Scale are applied to all women as a pre-test, the women in the experimental group will be included in the Combating Violence Against Women program. The program will be given in 4 sessions in 1 day. Demonstration, powerpoint, feedback and brainstorming methods will be used in the training.

No intervention will be made to the control group.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 62
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Çorum, Turkey
    • Ordu University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women between the ages of 18-45,
• Who speaks Turkish,
• Who has previously applied to law enforcement due to violence,
• Women who volunteer to participate in the research.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Women diagnosed with a psychiatric illness.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Factorial Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Active Comparator: Control group; All women will be given the Personal Information Form, Domestic Violence Awareness Scale and Gender Role Attitude Scale as a pre-test. No intervention will be made to the control group. After 8 weeks, all women will be reunited and given the Domestic Violence Awareness Scale and Gender Role Attitude Scale as a post-test.	Behavioral: Experimental: Experimental: Combating violence against women; After the Personal Information Form, Domestic Violence Awareness Scale and Gender Role Attitude Scale are applied to all women as a pre-test, the women in the experimental group will be included in the Combating Violence Against Women program. The program will be given in 4 sessions in 1 day. Demonstration, powerpoint, feedback and brainstorming methods will be used in the training. 8 weeks after the completion of the training, all women will be reunited and the Domestic Violence Awareness Scale and Gender Role Attitude Scale will be applied as a post-test.
Experimental: Combating violence against women; After the Personal Information Form, Domestic Violence Awareness Scale and Gender Role Attitude Scale are applied to all women as a pre-test, the women in the experimental group will be included in the Combating Violence Against Women program. The program will be given in 4 sessions in 1 day. Demonstration, powerpoint, feedback and brainstorming methods will be used in the training. 8 weeks after the completion of the training, all women will be reunited and the Domestic Violence Awareness Scale and Gender Role Attitude Scale will be applied as a post-test.	Behavioral: Experimental: Experimental: Combating violence against women; After the Personal Information Form, Domestic Violence Awareness Scale and Gender Role Attitude Scale are applied to all women as a pre-test, the women in the experimental group will be included in the Combating Violence Against Women program. The program will be given in 4 sessions in 1 day. Demonstration, powerpoint, feedback and brainstorming methods will be used in the training. 8 weeks after the completion of the training, all women will be reunited and the Domestic Violence Awareness Scale and Gender Role Attitude Scale will be applied as a post-test.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Domestic Violence Awareness Scale	The scale developed by Özyürek and Kurnaz (2019) consists of 20 items measuring awareness of domestic violence on a three-point Likert scale. The highest score that can be obtained from each item is three, and the lowest score is one. Items 1-5 in the scale constitute the sub-dimensions of "Definition of Domestic Violence", items 6-10 constitute the sub-dimensions of "Consequences of Domestic Violence", items 11-15 constitute the sub-dimensions of "Acceptance of Domestic Violence", and items 16-20 constitute the sub-dimensions of "Normalization of Domestic Violence". High total scores obtained from the entire scale can be interpreted as the individual having views compatible with the expected behaviors and attitudes in scientific and legal fields in interpreting domestic violence and having a high level of awareness of domestic violence. The Cronbach alpha coefficient of the scale was reported to be 0.92 and ranged between 0.71 and 0.92 for its sub-dimensions. In this study, Cronbach	2 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Gender Roles Attitude Scale	Gender Roles Scale was originally developed by García-Cueto and colleagues (2015). Adaptation of the scale to Turkish and reliability validity study were conducted by Bakioğlu and Türküm (2019). In the original study, Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient was calculated as 0.99 within the scope of reliability of the scale, in the adaptation study, Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient was calculated as 0.88 and test-retest reliability was calculated as 0.77. The scale consists of 15 questions and a single dimension. The items are answered in Likert type as 1= I completely disagree, 2= I disagree, 3= I am undecided, 4= I agree, 5= I completely agree and so on. The 13 items of the scale, except for items 1 and 2, are reverse coded. A total score is obtained from the scale, and a higher score indicates a higher negative attitude towards gender roles. In other words, a person who scores high on the scale adopts gender roles less and shows less commitment than a person	2 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hitit University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 28, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): July 28, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): September 15, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 13, 2025
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 24, 2025
• First Posted (Actual): July 3, 2025

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 3, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 24, 2025
• Last Verified: June 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: Combating Violence Against Wom

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: De-identified individual participant data will be shared with researchers who apply for appropriate use for research purposes only, with ethics committee approval.
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: after publication
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: Researchers who are conducting research in the same field and have received ethics committee approval.
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL; SAP; CSR

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No