Community-level spillover effects of an intervention to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV transmission in rural Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with adverse health and psychosocial outcomes. We analysed the spillover effects of Unite for a Better Life (UBL), an intervention evaluated in a cluster randomised controlled trial using a double-randomised design; previous evidence suggests UBL reduced IPV in rural Ethiopia among direct beneficiaries.

Methods

Villages (n=64) were randomly allocated to control, or to receive UBL delivered to men, women or couples. Each cluster comprised 106 surveyed households, including 21 randomly selected indirect beneficiary households who were not included in the intervention. Primary and secondary IPV outcomes included women's experience and men's perpetration of past-year physical or sexual IPV 24 months postintervention. An in

SUBMITTER: Leight J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7845680 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature