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Violence Against Health Care Workers in Fragile Settings

NCT05419687 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 798

Last updated 2025-01-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The general objective of the project is to assess whether a violence de-escalating training for health professionals and of a publicly displayed Code of Conduct (a set of rules developed through a citizen science and co-design approach) for both health professionals and clients at the level of the health facility, can reduce the incidence and severity of episodes of violence, and to identify the most cost-effective way to implement these interventions in rural Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in the mega city of Baghdad, Iraq.

Conditions

  • Workplace Violence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Training in de-escalating violence

* Individual educational component through a de-escalating violence training for health care workers (verbal and non-verbal de-escalating techniques) * Refreshment training in the form of collaborative learning

BEHAVIORAL

Code of conduct delivered via a warning board

A publicly displayed code of conduct (a co-designed set of rules) for both HCWs and clients, delivered via a warning board at the level of the health facilities and secondary hospitals

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Catholic University of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Al-Mustansiriyah University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sonja Merten, MD MPH PhD · Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-11-01
Primary Completion
2024-10-31
Completion
2024-10-31

Countries

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Iraq

Study Locations

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