IPV Prevention Among FDP

Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7; 7 items. Scores range from 0 to 21, with higher values indicating greater symptom severity.

Patient health questionnaire-9; 9 items; values range from 0 to 27 with higher values indicating greater depressive symptom severity

Post traumatic disorder checklist -5. This is a 20 item scale with values ranging from 0 to 80. With higher values indicating greater symptom severity

World Health Organization's Physical Violence subscale. The 6-item subscale assesses participants' experiences of six specific acts of physical violence perpetrated by an intimate partner. Scores range from 0 (zero acts) to 6 (multiple acts), representing the number of different physical IPV acts experienced, with higher scores indicating greater exposure to physical IPV.

World Health Organization's Emotional Violence subscale. The 4--item subscale assesses participants' experiences of four specific acts of emotional violence perpetrated by an intimate partner. Scores range from 0 (zero acts) to 4 (multiple acts), representing the number of different emotional IPV acts experienced, with higher scores indicating greater exposure to emotional IPV.

The economic subscale was initially created for the original EA$E RCT in Côte d'Ivoire. The 4-item subscale assesses participants' experiences of four specific acts of economic violence perpetrated by an intimate partner. Scores range from 0 (zero act) to 4 (multiple acts), representing the number of different economic IPV acts experienced, with higher scores indicating greater exposure to economic IPV.

Economic Coercion Scale-20 (ECS-20). The ECS-20 is a short form version of the economic coercion scale-36). The 20 item scale assesses 1) participants' experiences of 20 specific acts of economic coercion by an intimate partner in their lifetime; and 2) the frequency of each act during the past month for those acts reported as having occurred at least once during the participant's lifetime. Scores range from 0 (zero acts) to 20 (multiple acts) with higher scores indicating greater economic coercion.

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Controlling Behaviors scale. The 6-item scale assesses participants' experiences of six specific acts of controlling behaviors perpetrated by an intimate partner. Scores range from 0 (zero acts) to 6 (multiple acts), representing the number of different acts of controlling behavior experienced, with higher scores indicating greater exposure to controlling behaviors.

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Attitudes Towards Wife-Beating Scale. The 6-item scale assesses participants' beliefs of five specific attitudes toward intimate partner violence against wives perpetrated by an intimate partner. Scores range from 0 (zero beliefs) to 6 (multiple beliefs), representing the number of beliefs held, with higher scores indicating greater acceptance toward intimate partner violence against wives.

A modified version of the Gender equitable attitudes (GEM) scale. This modified version is a 13 item scale that assesses participants' gender equitable attitudes across three domains: 1) Domestic Chores & Daily Life; 2) Reproductive Health and Disease; and 3) Prevention Domain Violence. The Sexual relationship domain items were removed for this population. Response options include agree = 1; partially agree = 2; and disagree = 3. Scores range from 13 to 39, with higher scores indicating greater inequitable gender attitudes.

Brief COPE, Religion Subscale. This is a two item scale used to assess engagement in religious and spiritual coping. Scores range from 0-3, with higher scores indicating greater engagement in religious and/or spiritual coping mechanisms.

The coping self-efficacy scale is a 13 item scale used to assess coping self-efficacy. Scores range from 0 to 10, with higher scores indicating greater self-efficacy.

The ENRICHD Social Support Inventory (ESSI). The ESSI is a 5 item used to assess level of social support. Scores range from 5 to 15 with higher scores indicated greater social support.

A modified version of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Women's autonomy in household decision making scale. The questions were slightly adapted for the study population and an additional question was added. This is a 4 item scale used to assess the number of decisions a women is involved in regarding household decision making. Scores range from 0-3 with higher scores indicating a greater number of decisions the wife/partner is involved in.

Feminist Grounded Family Functioning Scale. This is a 26 item scale used to assess family functioning. Scores range from 1-4 with higher scores indicating greater family functioning.

Couple functionality assessment tool (CFAT) communication subscale. This is a 7 item scale used to assess spousal relationship communication. Scores range from 7-21 with higher scores indicating greater relationship communication between spouses.

feasibility will be measured via the Weiner feasibility scale. This 4 item scale will assess the extent to which a facilitator perceives that it is feasible that they can facilitate each individual EA$E-US session. Scores range from 4 to 20, with higher scores indicating greater levels of perceived feasibility.

Acceptability will be measured via the Weiner acceptability scale. This 4 item scale will assess the extent to which a facilitator perceives that each individual EA$E-US session is acceptable for IRC and their community. Scores range from 4 to 20, with higher scores indicating greater levels of perceived acceptability.

Appropriateness will be measured via the Weiner Appropriateness scale. This 4 item scale will assess the extent to which a facilitator perceives that each individual EA$E-US session is Appropriateness for IRC and their community. Scores range from 4 to 20, with higher scores indicating greater levels of perceived Appropriateness.

microadaptations will be assessed by documenting the type, frequency, and reasons for planned and spontaneous modifications through field notes and facilitator feedback sessions.

Attendance will be documented with an attendance tracking sheet that assess whether participants attended each session, late arrival time, and time left early. Attendance will be assessed by the Proportion of enrolled couples who attended at least 75% of EA$E-US sessions (6 sessions out of 8)

Perceived safety will be measured via Researcher-created items and open-ended questions to probe perceptions of participant and facilitator safety. And the Perception of threats to personal safety associated with participating in the intervention, 1-item (Female participants)

A fidelity checklist will be created based on instructions in the adapted EA$E-US facilitator's manual and scored on a 3-point scale (No/Partially/Yes) and used to assess fidelity. Scoring will range from 1 to 3, with higher scores indicating greater fidelity.

Homework completion will be documented with a homework completion tracking sheet. Facilitators will verbally ask participants as they check in for each session. Homework attendance will be assess by the proportion of enrolled couples who complete at least 75% of all assigned home practice (6 out of 8).