Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Box LG 13, Accra, Ghana. The trial will last three years with one baseline survey, one impact assessment and a qualitative baseline, midpoint and endline evaluation. A total of 40 localities were selected to serve as clusters 20 per trial arm with about 82 households per cluster recruited at baseline.
The same number will be recruited post-intervention. Sampling of households within a community was random and done using a computerised system. In each selected household, one female or male resident was invited to participate. Individuals are eligible for inclusion in the study if they usually live sleep and eat in the household, have lived in the community for at least a year, and are between the ages of to years old.
Our impact assessment component will compare past 12 months incidence of IPV i. The implementation of this community trial comes at an opportune time when evidence on the effectiveness of a targeted VAW intervention in the Ghanaian society is needed to inform the development of national policies for preventing VAW. Our progressive research approach using a mixed method design will further extend knowledge globally on a multifaceted intervention to reduce the incidence of intimate partner violence in a developing country.
KEYWORDS: Intimate partner violence, gender-based violence, community intervention, impact assessment, community-based action teams, cluster randomised controlled trial.
Intimate partner violence IPV , which describes physical, or emotional, or sexual assault, or both, of a spouse or sexual partner, is a common form of VAW in many parts of the world [ 6 ], including Ghana [ 4 , 5 , 7 — 9 ]. Among ever-married women, the GDHS data showed that Estimates of IPV prevalence in Ghana have been steadily increasing over the years.
