Does an adolescent programme delivered to teenagers who took part in a mother-infant intervention reduce interpersonal violence?

10/05/2018
31/08/2019
This study is proposed to evaluate the effect of a second-wave intervention to prevent violence, delivered to adolescents who had participated as infants, along with their mothers, in a home-based maternal child attachment intervention (the Thula Sana Mother-Infant Intervention). This study continues the aims to investigate strategies to reduce levels of interpersonal violence, victimization, and aggression, and improves attitudes, knowledge, and belief systems about violence, compared with no intervention.
Intimate Partner Violence
South Africa
Rural & Urban
Mothers and infants
Male & Female
0 - 4
5 - 9
10 - 19
20 - 29
30 - 59

Lead Investigator Information

Mark Tomlinson
Masiphulisane Research Centre (South Africa)
South Africa
markt@sun.ac.za
Fidelity/quality of implementation
Participants
Experimental: 210
Control: 210
 Data PointsStatisticalMatching
Randomised controlled trial 
Perpetration of interpersonal violence Levels of victimization of interpersonal violence
Attitudes, knowledge and belief systems with regards to gender relations and interpersonal violence
Masiphulisane Research Centre Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
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