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NCT Number: NCT03257176

Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Intervention Pilot

This is a shortened interrupted time series pilot evaluation over a twelve month period to evaluate whether the combined Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention can reduce men's perpetration of IPV and women's experience of IPV, strengthen livelihoods and reduce gender inequality.

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Key information

Conditions

Physical Violence Livelihoods Sexual Violence

Age range

18 year–30 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 4001, South Africa

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Over 18
  • Mentally competent
  • Able to communicate in English, Zulu, or Xhosa
  • Normally resident in the informal settlement

Exclusion criteria

  • Over 30
  • Unable to do informed consent

Treatment and study plan

Stepping Stones and Creating Futures

Behavioral

21 session intervention, comprising of 10 Stepping Stones sessions focused on gender, relationships and communication. 11 Creating Futures sessions focused on livelihoods.

Primary outcomes

  1. Past three month physical IPV perpetration (men) and experience (women)

    Time frame: 12 months post baseline

    Physical intimate partner violence is assessed using five items based on the WHO VAW scale, asking about perpetration (men) and experience (women) of these five behaviourally specific actions in the past three months. A positive response to any of the five items leads to a person being classified as perpetrating (men) and experiencing (women) physical IPV in the past three months.

  2. Past three month sexual IPV perpetration (men) and experience (women)

    Time frame: 12 months post baseline

    Sexual intimate partner violence is assessed using three items based on the WHO VAW scale for sexual IPV. Questions are asked for the past three month perpetration (men) and experience (women). A positive response to any item leads to a person being classified as perpetrating (men) and experiencing (women) in the past three months.

  3. Earnings in past month

    Time frame: 12 months post baseline

    A single item question asks "Considering all the money you earned from jobs or selling things (excluding grants), how much did you earn last month?" Responses are in Rands and a continuous scale.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Work stress

    Time frame: 12 months post baseline

    4 items ask about work stress because of a lack of work. Responses are on a likert scale.

  2. Feelings about work shame

    Time frame: 12 months post baseline

    4 items ask about shame because of type and lack of work. Responses are on a likert scale.

  3. Gender attitudes

    Time frame: 12 months post baseline

    Modified gender equitable men's scale assess participant's gender attitudes.

  4. Controlling behaviours

    Time frame: 12 months post baseline

    Controlling behaviours are assessed using a modified Sexual Relationship Power (SRP) scale. Men's control of female sexual partner's and women's experience of controlling behaviours from a male partner.

  5. Condom use at last sex

    Time frame: 12 months post baseline

    Single item asking about condom use at last sex

  6. Hunger in the past month

    Time frame: 12 months post baseline

    Single item assesses hunger in the past month

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of KwaZulu

Other

Collaborators

  • Medical Research Council, South Africa
  • Project Empower

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2012
Primary completion
2013
Study completion
2013
First posted
Aug 22, 2017
Registry last updated
Aug 22, 2017

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