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NCT Number: NCT05609786

Dissemination and Implementation of a Web-based Relationship Safety App, myPlanKenya, for Women at Risk for Intimate Partner Violence in Nairobi, Kenya

This effectiveness-implementation hybrid-3 study evaluates dissemination, implementation, and effectiveness of myPlanKenya. myPlanKenya will be disseminated through formal and informal sectors. This clinical trial portion of the study enrolls women at risk for intimate partner violence (IPV) who are referred to myPlanKenya by disseminators (i.e. "end-users").

This trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of myPlanKenya referral on resilience, health and safety among a cohort of women referred to myPlanKenya based on disclosure of IPV or assessed to have IPV related risks.

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Key information

Conditions

Violence, Domestic Behavior Coitus Sexual Behavior Violence, Gender-Based Violence, Sexual

Age range

16 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Ujamaa Africa

Nairobi, Kenya

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Female
  • Age 16 or older
  • Physical or sexual partner violence or relationship-based fears within the past six months; behaviorally assessed
  • Living in Nairobi, Kenya with no plans to move in the next 12 months
  • Access to a safe smart phone or computer (personal or shared), and comfort using it to access the myPlan Kenya app
  • Literate in English or Swahili languages; confirmed by reading and completing a short passage by filling in several blanks with the appropriate words, selected from a drop-down menu.

Exclusion criteria

  • Male
  • Under age 16
  • Have not experienced physical or sexual partner violence or relationship-based fears in past 6 months
  • Lives outside of the study area or plans to move within the next 12 months
  • Does not have access to a safe smart phone or computer, or is uncomfortable using it to access the myPlan Kenya app
  • Illiterate in English or Swahili languages

Treatment and study plan

Personalized safety planning tool

Behavioral

The myPlan Kenya app is a web-based safety planning tool that is secure, private, free and personalized to the user. The app includes multiple, evidence-based modules: Strategies (safety strategies tailored to the user's needs and violence experience); Resources (referrals to local health, safety and justice resources and services); About You (questionnaires that help the user assess their relationship safety and tailor their Strategies, including My Relationship, Red Flags, My Safety, My Priorities); Understanding (knowledge sections that share information on relationships and violence, including Healthy Relationships, Harmful Beliefs About Abuse, About Violence).

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in decisional conflict

    Time frame: Baseline, 6-month, 12-month

    12-item pre-intervention and 10-item post-intervention decisional conflict measures (specific to safety), assessed using a 5-point Likert scale (0-4). Items are scored from 0-60 pre-intervention and 0-50 post-intervention, with higher scores indicating higher lower decisional conflict and lower scores indicating higher decisional conflict.

  2. Change in resilience as assessed by Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale

    Time frame: Baseline, 6-month, 12-month

    10-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, which assesses resilience using a 5-point Likert scale (0-4). Items are scored from 0-40, with higher scores indicating greater resilience and lower scores indicating lower resilience.

  3. Change in safety/IPV experience(s) as assessed by the Conflict Tactics Scale-2

    Time frame: Baseline, 6-month, 12-month

    10-item adapted Conflict Tactics Scale-2 (CTS2), which assesses IPV experiences using a 3-point scale on the frequency of these experiences.

  4. Change in help-seeking

    Time frame: Baseline, 6-month, 12-month

    6-item index on help-seeking, which assesses abuse disclosure and services/information received on a 2-point scale (yes/no), and the helpfulness of these disclosures and services on a 5-point Likert scale. Scale examined for fit and will be handled as individual items as needed.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in safety strategies

    Time frame: Baseline, 6-month, 12-month

    5-item index on safety strategies, which assesses the use of strategies on a 2-point scale (yes/no), and the helpfulness of these strategies on a 5-point Likert scale.

  2. Change in IPV recognition as assessed by the Abusive Behaviors Scale

    Time frame: Baseline, 6-month, 12-month

    7-item adapted Abusive Behaviors Scale, which assesses IPV recognition using a 5-point Likert scale (0-4). Items are scored from 0-35, with higher scores indicating greater IPV recognition and lower scores indicating lower IPV recognition.

  3. Change in relationship intention

    Time frame: Baseline, 6-month, 12-month

    Single item which assesses intention for current relationship on a 4-point scale.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Other

Collaborators

  • Ujamaa Africa

Registry information

Acronym: myPlanKenya

Important dates

Study start
2022
Primary completion
2024
Study completion
2025
First posted
Nov 8, 2022
Registry last updated
Nov 18, 2025

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