Community Based Intervention to Prevent Domestic Violence Against Women in Ethiopia; a Protocol for Quasi-Experimental Implementation Research

Summary

Violence against women is a well understood devastating global pandemic, and human right violation. One in three women experienced intimate partner violence worldwide. In Ethiopia, the level of domestic violence against women is one of the highest in the world. However, Ethiopia is signatory for various conventions and incorporate into the constitution and other legal frameworks. Nevertheless, effective implementation of the existing policy documents, and engaging different stakeholders is very limited. There is paucity of evidence on piloting the feasibility of implementing community based preventive intervention programs. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to pilot feasibility and implement existing research evidence and policy documents at community level to prevent domestic violence against women in Awi zone, northwestern Ethiopia This study will be conducted in three districts of the Awi zone, Amhara regional state, Northwestern Ethiopia.

General Objective:The overall aim of this study is to assess the outcome of community based interventions implementation to prevent domestic violence against women, enhance community response and determinants among women (15-49 years) in Awi Zone, Northwestern Ethiopia from November, 2017 to November, 2018.

Specific Objectives

1. To assess the baseline level of domestic violence against women in the study area
2. To identify associated factors of domestic violence against women
3. To design intervention implementation strategy to tackle domestic violence against women
4. To implement culturally appropriate/acceptable interventions to address bottlenecks and domestic violence against women
5. To assess the outcome of community based intervention on domestic violence against women

Research questions

* How can prevent domestic violence against women through community based intervention?
* What are the bottlenecks of prevention intervention implementation at community level?
* How can implementers engage stakeholders to mobilize community and resource to implement existing evidence based interventions to transform gender norm?

Research Hypothesis

* Null hypothesis (Ho): this community based prevention intervention will not have effect (difference) on the level of domestic violence against women as compared with control (standard program).
* Alternative Hypothesis (HA): community based prevention intervention will have a better effect to make an improvement on the level of domestic violence against women than control (standard services).

Conditions

• Domestic Violence Against Women
• Community-based Prevention
• Interevntion Implementation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention 1: Comprehensive preventive intervention

aims to implement the existing evidence and policy documents Advocacy workshop to politicians, Community mobilization, Awareness creation on women,training community representative, Husband participation

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention 2: Awareness creation and community mobilization

Advocacy politicians, Community mobilization, Awareness creation to women, Training community representative

OTHER

available standard care

The standard care will be maintained but no other additional intevvenion designed by this study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• World Health Organization

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Ghana

  collaborator OTHER

• Haramaya Unversity

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Augustine Ankomah, PhD · University of Ghana

• Kwasi Torpey, MD, PhD · University of Ghana

• Abubakar Manu, PhD · University of Ghana

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

15 Years

Max Age

49 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-11-28

Primary Completion

2017-12-31

Completion

2018-12-31

Countries

• Ethiopia

Study Locations