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Communication Skills vs. Mindfulness for IPV

NCT03672942 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2019-04-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This tests the immediate impact of two brief interventions on couples reporting intimate partner violence using the proximal change experimental design. Couples will be randomly assigned to a mindfulness conditions, a communication exercise or a placebo condition. Outcome measures include observed and experimentally assessed aggression.

Conditions

  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Abuse
  • Family Conflict
  • Aggression

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Communication Skills Training

Gentle start-up is one treatment technique in the Creating Healthy Relationship Program written by John Gottman, Ph.D.

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness

Acceptance/willingness of unwanted emotions is treatment technique of Achieving Change through Value-Based Behavior (ACTV) written by Amie Zarling, Ph.D.

BEHAVIORAL

Placebo

Couples randomly assigned to this condition listen to music on headphones. This may be considered an active placebo as it is similar to a Time Out technique taught in battering interventions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Houston

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Julia C Babcock, Ph.D. · University of Houston

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-09-15
Primary Completion
2021-09-15
Completion
2022-09-15

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