Use of online safety decision aid by abused women: effect on decisional conflict in a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An Internet safety decision aid was developed to help abused women understand their risk for repeat and near-lethal intimate partner violence, clarify priorities related to safety, and develop an action plan customized to these priorities.

Purpose

To test the effectiveness of a safety decision aid compared with usual safety planning (control) delivered through a secure website, using a multistate RCT design. The paper evaluates the effectiveness of the safety decision aid in reducing decisional conflict after a single use by abused women.

Design

RCT referred to as Internet Resource for Intervention and Safety (IRIS).

Setting/participants

Abused women who spoke English (n=708) were enrolled in a four-state RCT.

Intervention

The intervention was

SUBMITTER: Eden KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4380709 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature