Use of Online Safety Decision Aid by Abused Women

Eden, Karen; Perrin, Nancy; Hanson, Ginger C.; Messing, Jill T.; Bloom, Tina; Campbell, Jacquelyn C.; Gielen, Andrea Carlson; Clough, Amber; Barnes-Hoyt, Jamie; Glass, Nancy

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2014.09.027

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“…Information about the study was included in Health TV newsletters, and the research team communicated with each site offering flyers and isafe referral cards for display in their waiting rooms to supplement the television ad. The primary method of recruitment for the IRIS study was community ads on craigslist [11], which is not commonly used in New Zealand. While the team considered recruiting through social media sites such as Facebook, we were reluctant to do so due to security and confidentiality concerns.…”

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“…The isafe trial was part of an international collaborative concurrent replication of the Internet Resource for Intervention and Safety (IRIS) study [11] that was modified for the Aotearoa New Zealand context [14]. The New Zealand trial, tailored for the New Zealand context [14], advanced the IRIS study by offering women fully automated Web-based trial recruitment, eligibility screening, and consent [44].…”

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Participant Recruitment and Engagement in Automated eHealth Trial Registration: Challenges and Opportunities for Recruiting Women Who Experience Violence

Koziol‐McLain¹,

McLean²,

Rohan³

et al. 2016

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundAutomated eHealth Web-based research trials offer people an accessible, confidential opportunity to engage in research that matters to them. eHealth trials may be particularly useful for sensitive issues when seeking health care may be accompanied by shame and mistrust. Yet little is known about people’s early engagement with eHealth trials, from recruitment to preintervention autoregistration processes. A recent randomized controlled trial that tested the effectiveness of an eHealth safety decision aid for New Zealand women in the general population who experienced intimate partner violence (isafe) provided the opportunity to examine recruitment and preintervention participant engagement with a fully automated Web-based registration process. The trial aimed to recruit 340 women within 24 months.ObjectiveThe objective of our study was to examine participant preintervention engagement and recruitment efficiency for the isafe trial, and to analyze dropout through the registration pathway, from recruitment to eligibility screening and consent, to completion of baseline measures.MethodsIn this case study, data collection sources included the trial recruitment log, Google Analytics reports, registration and program metadata, and costs. Analysis included a qualitative narrative of the recruitment experience and descriptive statistics of preintervention participant engagement and dropout rates. A Koyck model investigated the relationship between Web-based online marketing website advertisements (ads) and participant accrual.ResultsThe isafe trial was launched on September 17, 2012. Placement of ads in an online classified advertising platform increased the average number of recruited participants per month from 2 to 25. Over the 23-month recruitment period, the registration website recorded 4176 unique visitors. Among 1003 women meeting eligibility criteria, 51.55% (517) consented to participate; among the 501 women who enrolled (consented, validated, and randomized), 412 (82.2%) were accrued (completed baseline assessments). The majority (n=52, 58%) of the 89 women who dropped out between enrollment and accrual never logged in to the allocated isafe website. Of every 4 accrued women, 3 (314/412, 76.2%) identified the classified ad as their referral source, followed by friends and family (52/412, 12.6%). Women recruited through a friend or relative were more likely to self-identify as indigenous Māori and live in the highest-deprivation areas. Ads increased the accrual rate by a factor of 74 (95% CI 49–112).ConclusionsPrint advertisements, website links, and networking were costly and inefficient methods for recruiting participants to a Web-based eHealth trial. Researchers are advised to limit their recruitment efforts to Web-based online marketplace and classified advertising platforms, as in the isafe case, or to social media. Online classified advertising in “Jobs–Other–volunteers” successfully recruited a diverse sample of women experiencing intimate partner violence. Preintervention recruitment data provi...

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Participant Recruitment and Engagement in Automated eHealth Trial Registration: Challenges and Opportunities for Recruiting Women Who Experience Violence

Koziol‐McLain¹,

McLean²,

Rohan³

et al. 2016

J Med Internet Res

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“…These include: fear of being judged or misunderstood (Chang et al, 2005); financial pressures; concern about the partner finding out (Hegarty & Taft, 2001;Rose et al, 2011); and a belief that IPV is a private matter (Hegarty & Taft, 2001;Othman et al, 2014). Qualitative studies show that similar barriers are faced by women trying to disclose to informal supports such as family and friends Trotter & Allen, 2009) Targeted interventions delivered via the internet have shown promise as an alternative method of support for women experiencing IPV (Eden et al, 2015;Glass, Eden, Bloom, & Perrin, 2010;Koziol-McLain et al, 2018;Koziol-McLain et al, 2015;Lindsay et al, 2013;Tarzia, Iyer, Thrower, & Hegarty, 2017;Tarzia et al, 2015), with the potential to overcome some of the barriers associated with accessing face-to-face services (Tarzia, May, & Hegarty, 2016). Although there has been increasing attention paid to the negative effects of technology on IPV victims including stalking, harassment and technology-facilitated abuse (Dimond, Fiesler, & Bruckman, 2011;Woodlock, 2017), there are also many positive aspects.…”

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Women’s Experiences Receiving Support Online for Intimate Partner Violence: How Does it Compare to Face-to-Face Support from a Health Professional?

Tarzia

Cornelio

Forsdike

et al. 2018

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There is a growing need for novel approaches in supporting victims of intimate partner violence (IPV), particularly as the demand placed on formal services increases. Online interventions in this space have shown a great deal of theoretical promise. However, currently little is known about how women perceive this form of support, and how their experiences of receiving support online might differ from face-to-face approaches. This study aims to address this gap through qualitative interviews with n=16 women who had experienced IPV. Eight of the women had received support via an interactive online intervention, and eight had received a counselling intervention delivered by their general practitioner (family doctor). The findings suggest that many elements of faceto-face support can also be delivered effectively online, leading to greater control over the help-seeking process. On the other hand, a trusting relationship with the GP can also be extremely helpful to women seeking to disclose, and is difficult to replicate online. Which method of delivery is preferred may depend on whether a woman values trust or control in her help-seeking journey. Both online and face-to-face interventions for IPV should focus on providing individualised support that raises awareness, lessens isolation, and considers women's own unique needs and circumstances.Research Highlights  Support can be effectively delivered both online or via a trained family doctor for women experiencing IPV;  Online interventions can overcome many barriers to access associated with faceto-face support and provide greater control over the help-seeking process, whereas the family doctor may encourage trust;  Interventions delivered via the internet need to be able to respond empathetically to women's individual needs, whilst also managing to provide objective advice.

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“…While I-DECIDE builds on the work being done in the US [34, 41], New Zealand [38], and Canada (NCT02258841), it differs from these tools in that it includes therapeutic and self-reflective exercises around healthy relationships rather than focusing purely on safety decisions. Briefly, the I-DECIDE website’s elements include: tools to promote self-reflection on the health of a woman’s relationship, safety and danger assessment, a priority-setting exercise, counselling elements such as a motivational interviewing tool [42] and a non-directive problem solving tool [43], and, most importantly, a tailored, individualised plan for action and list of resources that is based on the woman’s particular situation.…”

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Assessing the feasibility of a web-based domestic violence intervention using chronic disease frameworks: reducing the burden of ‘treatment’ and promoting capacity for action in women abused by a partner

2016

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BackgroundDomestic violence shares many features with chronic disease, including ongoing physical and mental health problems and eroded self-efficacy. Given the challenges around help-seeking for women experiencing domestic violence, it is essential that they be given support to ‘self-manage’ their condition. The growing popularity of web-based applications for chronic disease self-management suggests that there may be opportunities to use them as an intervention strategy for women experiencing domestic violence, however, as yet, little is known about whether this might work in practice.DiscussionIt is critical that interventions for domestic violence—whether web-based or otherwise—promote agency and capacity for action rather than adding to the ‘workload’ of already stressed and vulnerable women. Although randomised controlled trials are vital to determine the effectiveness of interventions, robust theoretical frameworks can complement them as a way of examining the feasibility of implementing an intervention in practice. To date, no such frameworks have been developed for the domestic violence context. Consequently, in this paper we propose that it may be useful to appraise interventions for domestic violence using frameworks developed to help understand the barriers and facilitators around self-management of chronic conditions. Using a case study of an online healthy relationship tool and safety decision aid developed in Australia (I-DECIDE), this paper adapts and applies two theories: Burden of Treatment Theory and Normalisation Process Theory, to assess whether the intervention might increase women’s agency and capacity for action. In doing this, it proposes a new theoretical model with which the practical application of domestic violence interventions could be appraised in conjunction with other evaluation frameworks.SummaryThis paper argues that theoretical frameworks for chronic disease are appropriate to assess the feasibility of implementing interventions for domestic violence in practice. The use of the modified Burden of Treatment/Normalisation Process Theory framework developed in this paper strengthens the case for I-DECIDE and other web-based applications as a way of supporting women experiencing domestic violence.

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Use of Online Safety Decision Aid by Abused Women

Cited by 98 publications

References 31 publications

Participant Recruitment and Engagement in Automated eHealth Trial Registration: Challenges and Opportunities for Recruiting Women Who Experience Violence

Participant Recruitment and Engagement in Automated eHealth Trial Registration: Challenges and Opportunities for Recruiting Women Who Experience Violence

Women’s Experiences Receiving Support Online for Intimate Partner Violence: How Does it Compare to Face-to-Face Support from a Health Professional?

Assessing the feasibility of a web-based domestic violence intervention using chronic disease frameworks: reducing the burden of ‘treatment’ and promoting capacity for action in women abused by a partner

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