Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Intervention Pilot

NCT03257176 | Completed Phase 2

• 1 other identifier: HSS/0789/011
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 232
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Physical Violence; Sexual Violence; Livelihoods

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

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

  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.

  12 months post baseline

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

  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.

  12 months post baseline

• Earnings in past month

  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.

  12 months post baseline

Secondary Outcomes (6)

• Work stress

  12 months post baseline

• Feelings about work shame

  12 months post baseline

• Gender attitudes

  12 months post baseline

• Controlling behaviours

  12 months post baseline

• Condom use at last sex

  12 months post baseline

Study Arms (1)

Stepping Stones and Creating Futures

EXPERIMENTAL

Receive the 21 session intervention

Behavioral: Stepping Stones and Creating Futures

Interventions

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.

Stepping Stones and Creating Futures

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 30 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

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

You may not qualify if:

• Over 30
• Unable to do informed consent

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of KwaZulu: lead
• Medical Research Council, South Africa: collaborator
• Project Empower: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 4001, South Africa

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Gibbs A, Willan S, Jama-Shai N, Washington L, Jewkes R. 'Eh! I felt I was sabotaged!': facilitators' understandings of success in a participatory HIV and IPV prevention intervention in urban South Africa. Health Educ Res. 2015 Dec;30(6):985-95. doi: 10.1093/her/cyv059.

  PMID: 26590246 BACKGROUND

• Jewkes R, Gibbs A, Jama-Shai N, Willan S, Misselhorn A, Mushinga M, Washington L, Mbatha N, Skiweyiya Y. Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention: shortened interrupted time series evaluation of a behavioural and structural health promotion and violence prevention intervention for young people in informal settlements in Durban, South Africa. BMC Public Health. 2014 Dec 29;14:1325. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1325.

  PMID: 25544716 RESULT

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 2
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 7, 2017
• First Posted: August 22, 2017
• Study Start: May 2, 2012
• Primary Completion: July 30, 2013
• Study Completion: July 30, 2013
• Last Updated: August 22, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-08

Locations

ZA (1)