Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1007/s10896-024-00724-w
Renee Fiolet, Katie Lamb, Laura Tarzia, Kelsey Hegarty
Purpose
Having individuals with lived experience as co-researchers collaborate in research has increasingly become recognized as empowering for those involved and necessary for translational research. However, there has been limited exploration of how lived experience involvement as co-researchers in design, implementation and dissemination is experienced by those undertaking these influential roles. This study aimed to explore victim-survivors’ (of domestic, family and sexual violence) motivations for joining a lived experience research group and understand their experiences of taking part in setting the research agenda.
Methods
Seven in-depth face-to-face interviews took place with women from a lived experience group based at a university. Reflective thematic analysis led to development of four main themes.
Results
The first theme, making a difference, speaks to personal reasons that empowered participants to become a part of the new co-researcher group. Having that collective experience explains the benefits victim-survivors experienced from joining the group and shows to the importance of feeling supported by others with similar experiences. Wounds that are still very raw describes the emotional challenges that could arise when committing to the work of a lived experience group and the potential for re-traumatization. Finally, the theme there’s no blueprint for this addresses the innovative work victim-survivors engaged in to build a meaningful, research-active group. Motivation to participate in a lived experience group was influenced by their own past experiences. While having their voices heard was important for some, the stronger desire was to create meaningful change for other victim-survivors.
Conclusions
Future research should focus on how to support and meaningfully engage victim-survivors to undertake co-researcher roles, acknowledging the potential for re-traumatization. Future guidelines for establishing lived experience research groups are necessary.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1007/s10896-024-00710-2
Claudia Alvarez, Jeffry Nahmias, Alexa N. Lucas, Nicole Fierro, Navpreet K. Dhillon, Eric J. Ley, Jennifer Smith, Sigrid Burruss, Alden Dahan, Arianne Johnson, William Ganske, Walter L. Biffl, Dunya Bayat, Matthew Castelo, Diane Wintz, Dennis J. Zheng, Areti Tillou, Raul Coimbra, Rahul Tuli, Jarrett E. Santorelli, Brent Emigh, Morgan Schellenberg, Kenji Inaba, Thomas K. Duncan, Graal Diaz, Erika Tay-Lasso, Negaar Aryan, Danielle C. Zezoff, Areg Grigorian
Purpose
Domestic violence (DV) during pregnancy is associated with a higher incidence of obstetric complications. This study aimed to identify the injury profile and outcomes of pregnant trauma patients (PTPs) presenting after DV. We hypothesize that PTPs presenting after DV have a higher rate of fetal delivery (FD) and adverse maternal outcomes, compared to propensity-matched PTPs sustaining non-DV trauma.
Methods
PTPs ≥ 18 years old were included in this post-hoc analysis of a multicenter retrospective (2016–2021) study at 12 Level-I/II trauma centers. An unmatched and a 1:2 propensity-matched analyses of PTPs presenting with mechanisms involving and not involving DV were performed.
Results
From 950 patients, 70 (7.4%) PTPs presented after DV. The median age of PTPs presenting after DV was 26 years, the most common ethnicity was Hispanic (40%), and the most common mechanism and injury type were assault (85.7%) and abdominal injury (11.4%). PTPs presenting after DV had a higher rate of head injury (10% vs. 4.2%, p = 0.026). There was no difference in maternal complications and rate of FD (p > 0.05). These results did not change in the 1:2 propensity-matched analysis.
Conclusion
Our study found a higher rate of head injuries among PTPs presenting after DV compared to similarly matched PTPs presenting after non-DV trauma. However, no significant differences were observed in the rate of FD or maternal and fetal complications. Examining the effectiveness of universal screening for DV in the trauma setting and prenatal care may help optimize care delivery and support services for affected PTPs.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1007/s10896-024-00711-1
Emily R. Clear, Hartley C. Feld, Pratika Goparaju, Ann L. Coker
Purpose
Experiencing sexual violence is associated with a significantly increased risk of adolescent pregnancy. The Green Dot bystander intervention training reduced sexual violence (SV) perpetration and victimization in a large high school-based randomized control trial (RCT). The purpose of this paper was to investigate the efficacy of Green Dot training in reducing pregnancy rates among female and male students participating in this RCT.
Methods
Across the four years of the bystander intervention, 63,320 students completed annual surveys. Students’ reports of being or causing pregnancy in the past 12 months (4.0%; n = 2,560) were significantly times higher, 5 to 7-fold, for those disclosing SV victimization or perpetration, respectively. The effect of bystander intervention training was analyzed ‘as randomized’ and ‘as reported’ with self-reported, 12-month pregnancy rates as the primary outcome.
Results
When Green Dot was fully implemented in the last two years of the RCT, this intervention was associated with a modest yet not significant reduction in pregnancy rates (aRR = 0.89; 95% CI:0.77–1.03; ‘as randomized analyses’). Reported receipt of Green Dot training was associated with a 33% reduction in pregnancy rates (aRR = 0.77; 95% CI: 0.64–0.91; p = .01) and this pattern was more pronounced in the latter two years of the RCT (aRR = 0.68; 95%CI: 0.54–0.86).
Conclusions
Green Dot training did reduce sexual violence perpetration and victimization, and this training appears to additionally reduce pregnancy rates over time.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1007/s10896-024-00721-z
Zain Kurdi, John Devaney, Claire Houghton, Oliver Eastwood, John Frederick, Kathryn Joy, Katitza Marinkovic Chavez, Ashwini Sakthiakumaran, Eva Alisic
Purpose
To develop a socio-ecological understanding of the immediate and long-term effects on, and the needs of, children and young people (CYP) in the UK and Ireland bereaved by parental intimate partner homicide (IPH).
Method
The study draws on in-depth interviews from three different informants: those with lived experience (LE) (10); caregivers (12); and professionals (10). In addition to the 10 interviews with those bereaved by maternal IPH, experiences discussed include a further 23 cases of bereavement due to IPH during childhood (when aged under 18). We used thematic analysis to code and extracted themes into the relevant five dimensions of the socio-ecological model.
Results
The circumstances in which the homicide/suicide took place, were crucial in shaping children’s life trajectory. We identified circumstantial predictors in branching of trajectories: witnessing the murder; relatedness to perpetrator; and assumptions on biological relatedness. We found the need for life-long access to therapeutic care to support CYP essential during various developmental stages and life transitions. We recognized that both kinship and foster carers, required support in dealing with the complexity of grieving children. For kinship care, carers require help in managing their own grief, in addition to financial support to account for the new caring responsibilities. We also observed that children’s voice was rarely elicited, with no opportunities to exercise their agency.
Conclusion
Our findings highlight the importance of contextual circumstances for tailored support and the identification of appropriate carers and supporting them holistically. Finally, we highlight the importance of child centered policies and dedicated resources to support relevant services dealing with CYP bereaved by parental IPH.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-29DOI: 10.1007/s10896-024-00722-y
Jessica Willard, Annelise Mennicke, Ann L. Coker
Purpose
The proliferation of online learning and digital media has both expanded opportunities for violence prevention programming and presented challenges for replicating the benefits of in-person learning environments. The advent of learning management systems (LMS) and online data collection tools has advanced scientific inquiry and reach, while also requiring mastery of an ever-changing digital landscape.
Methods
This paper provides a framework for developing effective online violence prevention trainings, using tenets of bystander intervention, andragogical learning principles, learning taxonomies, and eLearning instructional design.
Results
Our application of online violence prevention training was selected because evidence-based in-person bystander training models exist and can serve as a content model for online adaptation. Specifically, we review how to design interventions that appeal to adult learners’ needs and motivations (andragogical learning principles), organize learning outcomes according to a range of cognitive processes (learning taxonomies), and create engaging digital learning products (eLearning instructional design). Further, we discuss how to promote knowledge retention and skills acquisition through cognitive and behavioral interactivity, role play demonstrations, real-time assessment, and simulation-based learning. We describe practical components of online training development, including technological considerations, creative elements, and evaluative measures. Lastly, we provide direction on vendor selection; ensuring web content accessibility compliance; and optimizing data capture.
Conclusions
By exploring new directions in online interventions for violence research, we seek to bridge existing gaps in training delivered in-person and in digital settings.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-27DOI: 10.1007/s10896-024-00713-z
Laurie M. Graham, Hyun-Jin Jun, Jeongsuk Kim, Luke Power, John Devaney, John Frederick, Gail Betz
Purpose
Childhood exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive problem worldwide. In addition to directly observing or indirectly experiencing IPV, children may be killed because of IPV. To date, research on child IPV-related deaths exists in various, disconnected areas of scholarship, making it difficult to understand how IPV contributes to child fatalities. As such, this scoping review located and synthesized research on child fatalities that resulted from IPV, seeking to understand the state of global research concerning the prevalence and circumstances of IPV-related child fatalities.
Methods
Using a combination of keywords and subject terms, we systematically searched PsycINFO, CINAHL Plus, PubMed, and seven research repositories. We located empirical studies published in English in peer-reviewed journals that reported findings concerning children (aged 0–17) who were killed because of IPV and/or people who killed children due to IPV. Among 9,502 de-duplicated records, we identified 60 articles that met review inclusion criteria. We extracted and synthesized information concerning research methods, circumstances and consequences of the fatalities, characteristics of people who committed IPV-related homicide of a child, and characteristics of children who died because of IPV.
Results
Studies were published from 1986–2022 and analyzed data from 23 countries. Most studies did not focus exclusively on IPV-related child homicides, and overall, studies reported sparse information concerning the contexts and circumstances of such fatalities. There were two predominant and distinct groups of children killed due to IPV: children killed by a parent or other adult caregiver and adolescents killed by an intimate partner. It was often difficult to ascertain whether the demographic characteristics of individuals who kill a child in the context of IPV and other contextual details might be similar to or different from child fatalities that occur under different circumstances or for other motivations.
Conclusions
This review highlighted that children die because of IPV. Findings indicated that such fatalities, while maybe difficult to predict, are often preventable if earlier intervention is made available and professionals are alert to key circumstances in which fatality risk is high. Future research and practice efforts should attend to understanding child fatalities resulting from IPV to identify critical intervention points and strategies that will save children’s lives.
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The World Health Organisation acknowledges the health sector as playing a key role in responding to those who experience and use domestic, family and sexual violence. Limited resources need to be well spent to ensure the best outcomes for victim-survivors and their families. This study was undertaken to explore: What do victim-survivors, researchers and practitioners see as the key research priorities for improving health sector responses to domestic, family and sexual violence in Australia?
Methods
A Delphi methodology was adopted, with input from those with lived experience. Victim-survivors, researchers, practitioners and policy makers (n = 35) were engaged in a workshop and two rounds of Delphi surveys (n = 72 and 69).
Results
Participants highly rated four themes of research priorities 1) embedding the voices victim-survivors of domestic and family violence in health sector reform; 2) improving outcomes for children, young people and young families: 3) strengthening response to victim-survivors and perpetrators; and 4) better meeting the needs of victim-survivors from diverse backgrounds (including those with a disability, mental health issues, or from culturally diverse or Indigenous backgrounds).
Conclusions
This study identifies a solid research agenda for organisations and individuals interested in conducting or funding research to improve health sector responses to victim-survivors in Australia. It also demonstrates one way in which victim-survivors can be engaged in a meaningful way to inform future research about domestic, family and sexual violence.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-18DOI: 10.1007/s10896-024-00719-7
Joana Ferreira
Purpose
This article reports on the findings from a larger study focusing on women’s experiences of abuse and subsequent criminal justice interventions. While mothering was not initially the central concern of this research, it soon became clear that it played a key role in informing women’s decision-making within abusive relationships which could not be overlooked. As such, I explore the role of mothering and children in women’s decision-making and responses to the abuse.
Method
This research was underpinned by feminist principles. It involved semi-structured interviews conducted with twenty-nine Portuguese women, between September and December 2017. Data was analyzed thematically.
Results
Findings from this research show that mothering identities surpass victim status. In explaining their decision-making, women more commonly draw on their mothering identities, their behavior being guided by their perceived responsibilities to protect and care for their children. Due to social constructions of motherhood and mothering, in the Portuguese context and beyond, women struggle with the coexistence of both mothering identities and victim status, with the first inevitably erasing the second.
Conclusion
A better understanding of the complex ways in which women act to care for and protect their children within abusive relationships is needed. Contrary to the often perpetuated belief that abused women are incapable of caring for their children, this research highlights how their own victimization and risk is made secondary in their attempts to ensure their children’s safety and wellbeing. The implications of these findings for policy and practice are considered.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-13DOI: 10.1007/s10896-024-00716-w
Amanda Goodson, Sarah Jane Brubaker
Purpose
As criticism of the criminalization of domestic violence (DV) has gained momentum, programs such as the Lethality Assessment Program (LAP) have been developed to enhance victim safety and improve collaboration between the criminal justice system and victim service community agencies. Few studies, however, have explored practitioners’ perceptions of the LAP, particularly as it relates to collaborative efforts between victim service and law enforcement agencies. This study was interested in identifying (1) how practitioners describe the goals of the LAP, (2) practitioners’ perceptions of and experiences with LAP implementation, 2) the perceived challenges, barriers, and successes of the LAP, and 4) practitioners’ perceptions of the LAP as it relates to its promise and effectiveness in expanding beyond a strictly criminal justice response to DV.
Methods
This descriptive, qualitative case study employed 17 semi-structured interviews to explore victim advocates’ and law enforcement officers’ (LEOs) experiences with the LAP in Virginia as an example of such collaborative efforts.
Results
Findings identify challenges and successes of the program that illustrate tensions and opportunities between the criminal justice system and victim advocacy. Examples of identified challenges included language and cultural barriers, DV victims declining to participate in the LAP, and officer resistance to implementing risk assessment. Successes included connecting DV victims to services and improving their knowledge surrounding abuse. Findings also highlight intended and unintended consequences of the program.
Conclusions
Policy implications regarding the potential for collaboration efforts to diminish exclusive reliance on the criminal justice system and suggestions for future research are discussed.
目的 随着对家庭暴力（DV）刑事犯罪化的批评声浪日益高涨，诸如致命性评估项目（LAP）等项目也应运而生，以加强受害者安全并改善刑事司法系统与受害者服务社区机构之间的合作。然而，很少有研究探讨从业人员对 LAP 的看法，特别是与受害者服务机构和执法机构之间的合作有关的看法。本研究有兴趣确定 (1) 从业人员如何描述 LAP 的目标，(2) 从业人员对 LAP 实施的看法和经验，(2) LAP 所面临的挑战、障碍和成功之处，以及 (4) 从业人员对 LAP 的看法，因为这关系到 LAP 在超越严格的刑事司法应对家庭暴力方面的前景和有效性。方法这项描述性的定性案例研究采用了 17 个半结构化访谈，以探讨受害者权益维护者和执法人员（LEOs）在弗吉尼亚州的 LAP 项目中的经验，作为此类合作努力的一个范例。已确定的挑战包括语言和文化障碍、家庭暴力受害者拒绝参与 LAP 以及警官对实施风险评估的抵制。成功之处包括将家庭暴力受害者与服务联系起来并提高他们对虐待的认识。研究结果还强调了该计划的预期和意外后果。结论讨论了有关合作努力的政策影响，以减少对刑事司法系统的完全依赖，以及对未来研究的建议。
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Pub Date : 2024-07-13DOI: 10.1007/s10896-024-00703-1
Danielle M. Davidov, Emily R. Clear, Xue Ding, Ann L. Coker
Purpose
The personal, economic, and societal costs and consequences of gender-based violence are significant. Although much violence intervention and prevention work occurs within academia, there is currently no coordinated workforce development approach to recruiting, training, and supporting the next generation of faculty focused on gender-based violence. Here we present an evaluation of Mentoring mcBEE—a mentorship and professional development program for new faculty from a range of disciplines from across the United States.
Methods
Before and after the mentoring program (2017 – 2019) and at least once during each academic term, fellows (n = 22) completed Redcap surveys to assess improvements in faculty skills, work life balance, job satisfaction, and research productivity. Surveys also included open-ended questions gauging fellows’ training and development needs and the value and limitations of the program. Data were analyzed using conventional content analysis with open-coding of free-text survey responses.
Results
Greater participation in this academic program significantly increased the size and support of participants’ networks, enhanced professorship skills, improved symptoms of poorer mental health, and increased academic productivity.
Conclusions
Gender-based violence continues to disproportionately impact the lives of women, girls, and sexual minorities regardless of biologic sex. Ensuring the educational and financial support needed to create and maintain the workforce who can address this health threat is a critical step in making a ‘future without violence’ a reality.
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