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Effectiveness of Empowerment Group Sessions for Treating Suicidal African American Women in Abusive Relationships

NCT00601939 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 397

Last updated 2024-11-12

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Summary

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of culturally competent psychoeducational empowerment sessions in treating suicidal African-American women who are in abusive relationships.

Conditions

  • Battered Women
  • Suicide, Attempted

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Psychoeducational intervention (PEI)

PEI consists of 10 culturally competent group empowerment psychoeducational sessions. The sessions are directed by a treatment manual and are co-led by two therapists. The sessions are guided by the theory of triadic influence (TTI) model, which incorporates cultural-environmental influences, social-situational influences, and intrapersonal influences into treatment.

BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced treatment as usual (ETAU)

ETAU contains an adherence protocol plus access to weekly support group and a resource room.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Emory University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD · Emory University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-03-31
Primary Completion
2028-12-31
Completion
2028-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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