Online Education for Domestic Violence

Overseen By Elisa Romano, PhD, Clinical Psychology

Age: 18+

Sex: Any

Trial Phase: Academic

Sponsor: University of Ottawa

Disqualifiers: Other training on violence

No Placebo Group All trial participants will receive the active study treatment (no placebo)

Approved in 1 Jurisdiction This treatment is already approved in other countries

Compensation: Varies

Number of Visits: Unknown

90 Participants Needed

Trial Summary

Do I need to stop my current medications to join the trial?

The trial protocol does not specify whether you need to stop taking your current medications. It seems unlikely, as the trial focuses on online education for domestic violence and not on medical treatments.

What data supports the idea that Online Education for Domestic Violence is an effective treatment?

The available research does not provide specific data on the effectiveness of Online Education for Domestic Violence. Instead, it focuses on general patient education and its impact on satisfaction and healthcare outcomes. For example, one study discusses how patient and family education can support positive healthcare outcomes, while another highlights the importance of coordinated education efforts. However, these studies do not directly address the effectiveness of Online Education for Domestic Violence compared to other treatments. ^{1 2 3 4 5}

What safety data exists for the online education treatment for domestic violence?

The provided research articles do not contain any safety data related to the online education treatment for domestic violence or its alternative names such as VEGA Family Violence Education Resources, VEGA Project, Violence, Evidence, Guidance, and Action Family Violence Education Resources. The articles focus on drug safety and pharmacovigilance, which are unrelated to the treatment in question. ^{6 7 8 9 10}

Is the VEGA Family Violence Education Resources a promising treatment for domestic violence?

Yes, the VEGA Family Violence Education Resources is a promising treatment. It provides important education for healthcare and social service providers to better recognize and respond to family violence. This can help them identify victims and reduce the risk of harm. The VEGA project is an online platform that supports providers in learning about family violence, making it accessible and relevant, especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to improve the skills and knowledge of providers, which is crucial for helping victims of domestic violence. ^{11 12 13 14 15}

What is the purpose of this trial?

The current research project aims to assess the effectiveness of the ©Violence, Evidence, Guidance, and Action (VEGA) Family Violence Education Resources (VEGA Project, 2019) in improving the knowledge, self-efficacy, and clinical responses of clinical psychology doctoral students to family violence in clinical settings. The VEGA on-line training is a collection of family violence online education resources designed to inform health and social service practitioners about family violence in a Canadian context, including definitions of family violence, mandatory reporting duties, effective responding to survivors, and more. Participants in this trial will be doctoral students recruited from accredited Clinical Psychology programs across Canada. Participants will be assigned to an intervention or wait-list control group, and the outcome measures consist of knowledge and attitudes about family violence, as well as measures of skills relevant to appropriately responding to survivors in clinical settings. Further, participants will be invited to complete a qualitative interview after the intervention to discuss overall impressions of the training and other ways the training changed their perspectives, if at all, on family violence.

Research Team

Elisa Romano, PhD, Clinical Psychology

Principal Investigator

University of Ottawa

Eligibility Criteria

This trial is for English-speaking clinical psychology doctoral students in Canada who are currently engaged in clinical work as part of their program. They must have internet access to participate, as the intervention involves an online educational resource.

Inclusion Criteria

I am a Clinical Psychology graduate student in Canada.

I am currently involved in clinical work as part of my program.

I can speak and read English.

Timeline

Screening

Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial

2-4 weeks

Training

Participants complete the VEGA Family Violence Education Resources online training modules

4 weeks

Online modules

Post-training Assessment

Participants' knowledge, attitudes, and clinical behaviors are assessed post-training

1 month

Follow-up

Participants are monitored for changes in clinical behaviors and attitudes towards family violence

1 month

Treatment Details

Interventions

• VEGA Family Violence Education Resources

Trial Overview The study tests the VEGA Family Violence Education Resources' effectiveness on improving knowledge, self-efficacy, and responses to family violence among psychology trainees. Participants will be compared with a wait-list control group to measure changes in attitudes and skills relevant to dealing with survivors.

Participant Groups

Group I: VEGA Family Violence Education Resources Experimental Treatment 1 Intervention

Students in this arm will receive access to the online VEGA Family Violence Education Resources and will be asked to complete modules covering information about family violence in Canada, creating safety for survivors in clinical settings, recognizing and responding to child maltreatment and intimate partner violence, three interactive learning scenarios, and voices of those with lived experiences of family violence.

Group II: No Training Active Control 1 Intervention

Students in this arm will not receive access to the training until the end of the pre- and post-training data collection for the Arm 1 group.

VEGA Family Violence Education Resources is already approved in Canada for the following indications:

Approved in Canada as VEGA Family Violence Education Resources for:

• Education for recognizing and responding to family violence, including child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, and children’s exposure to intimate partner violence

Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?

University of Ottawa

Lead Sponsor

Trials

231

Recruited

267,000+

Findings from Research

The study developed a family education satisfaction survey to assess the quality of patient education across different units and diagnoses, highlighting its importance for quality improvement.

Results from the survey help identify areas of excellence and opportunities for improvement in patient education, ensuring better care and support for families.

NCBI (Pubmed)

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Measuring satisfaction with patient education. A hospital-wide program evaluation. Bonheur, BB.[2007]

A 12-month study involving 99 patients showed that preoperative pain management education significantly improved patients' understanding of medication side effects and encouraged the use of nonpharmacologic methods for pain relief, leading to better pain management outcomes.

Patients who received targeted education reported more frequently on the effects of pain on their mood and their use of nonpharmacologic methods, suggesting that tailored preoperative education can enhance postoperative pain management knowledge and potentially prevent negative outcomes.

NCBI (Pubmed)

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Preoperative Pain Management Education: An Evidence-Based Practice Project. O'Donnell, KF.[2019]

A review at the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center highlighted the need for better coordination in patient and family education, which is crucial for improving healthcare outcomes.

The development of interdisciplinary processes and documentation forms led to enhanced quality of education and better tracking of educational efforts in patients' medical records.

NCBI (Pubmed)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Interdisciplinary patient and family education. Claflin, N.[2019]

A multidisciplinary task force developed a patient and family education program tailored for a culturally diverse population, ensuring it meets the standards set by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

The program emphasizes improving clinician effectiveness as educators, utilizing project management and continuous quality improvement methods for its development, implementation, and evaluation.

NCBI (Pubmed)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Patient/family education program: making the project management process operational. Kassel, DG., Lookinland, S.[2019]

Internet-based education significantly improved patients' knowledge levels more than face-to-face education with a nurse in a study involving 147 ambulatory orthopedic surgery patients.

Both education methods were effective in enhancing knowledge, but there was no difference in the sufficiency of knowledge between the two groups, indicating that online education is a viable alternative in ambulatory care.

NCBI (Pubmed)

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Ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients' knowledge with internet-based education. Heikkinen, K., Leino-Kilpi, H., Salanterä, S.[2017]

The study developed an automated method to aggregate various sources of drug safety information, achieving high predictive accuracy (≥0.92) in classifying drug-adverse event relationships, which can significantly streamline the process of identifying drugs associated with adverse reactions.

This approach offers a scalable alternative to the traditional manual curation methods, potentially saving time and resources in drug safety research by efficiently creating reference sets of drugs that do or do not cause adverse events.

NCBI (Pubmed)

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Accuracy of an automated knowledge base for identifying drug adverse reactions. Voss, EA., Boyce, RD., Ryan, PB., et al.[2019]

The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) reported the highest number of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) cases (1395), while the International Centre for Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis Registry (ICNSFR) provided the most complete histopathological data (335 cases).

The legal data set revealed that gadodiamide was the most commonly implicated gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) in NSF cases, with 76.2% of cases linked to it, highlighting the importance of using diverse data sources for comprehensive safety evaluations.

NCBI (Pubmed)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Advancing pharmacovigilance through academic-legal collaboration: the case of gadolinium-based contrast agents and nephrogenic systemic fibrosis-a Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports (RADAR) report. Edwards, BJ., Laumann, AE., Nardone, B., et al.[2022]

The safety of marketed drugs is a significant concern, as some commonly prescribed medications can lead to serious or life-threatening side effects in patients.

The ChEMBL resource will provide a curated drug safety data set, including toxicity classifications and black box warnings, which will be freely available and regularly updated to aid in drug safety research and discovery.

NCBI (Pubmed)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Drug Safety Data Curation and Modeling in ChEMBL: Boxed Warnings and Withdrawn Drugs. Hunter, FMI., Bento, AP., Bosc, N., et al.[2023]

The American Statistical Association's Interactive Safety Graphics Task Force has created a new interactive tool for analyzing drug safety data, specifically focusing on drug-induced liver damage, which enhances the review process.

This innovative tool, based on advancements in visual data processing and programming, serves as a prototype for developing additional interactive safety analysis tools, aiming to improve the evaluation of large safety datasets.

NCBI (Pubmed)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

A New Paradigm for Safety Data Signal Detection and Evaluation Using Open-Source Software Created by an Interdisciplinary Working Group. Buchanan, J., Li, M., Ni, X., et al.[2021]

After implementing interventions to improve pharmacovigilance in Sierra Leone, the timeliness of reporting Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs) increased significantly from 10% to 47% within 30 days.

The completeness of ICSR data improved from 44% to 80%, while the rate of patients classified as 'recovering' dropped dramatically from 36% to 3%, indicating better monitoring and evaluation of patient outcomes.

NCBI (Pubmed)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Quality of Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions to Antimicrobials Improved Following Operational Research: A before-and-after Study in Sierra Leone (2017-2023). Conteh, TA., Thomas, F., Abiri, OT., et al.[2023]

The RISE Project aims to enhance education on family violence for health and social service providers through a new intervention called VEGA, which focuses on improving knowledge and skills in recognizing and responding to family violence.

The project will assess the acceptability and feasibility of VEGA, as well as its effectiveness in achieving learning goals, ultimately providing insights into how to implement family violence education in real-world primary care settings.

NCBI (Pubmed)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Researching the Impact of Service provider Education (RISE) Project - a multiphase mixed methods protocol to evaluate implementation acceptability and feasibility. Kimber, M., Vanstone, M., Dimitropoulos, G., et al.[2022]

Healthcare and social service providers (HSSPs) often lack adequate training to recognize and respond to child maltreatment, which is crucial for preventing such cases.

The VEGA online platform and the RISE project aim to enhance HSSPs' education on this issue, providing essential resources and ongoing evaluation to improve their ability to address child maltreatment effectively, especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

NCBI (Pubmed)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Child maltreatment online education for healthcare and social service providers: Implications for the COVID-19 context and beyond. Kimber, M., McTavish, JR., Vanstone, M., et al.[2022]

The FAVICUE project aims to assess and improve the education on family violence (FV) in European medical universities, highlighting that many physicians currently lack adequate training to address this critical public health issue.

The study will utilize two online surveys targeting medical students and professionals to gather data on FV training, which will help identify educational gaps and inform future training interventions in line with WHO recommendations.

NCBI (Pubmed)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Family Violence Curricula in Europe (FAVICUE): a cross-sectional descriptive study protocol. Gómez Bravo, R., Lygidakis, C., Feder, G., et al.[2023]

A serious video game curriculum, consisting of 17 modules totaling about five hours of instruction, effectively trains healthcare providers on how to respond to domestic violence, addressing significant knowledge gaps.

Nearly 9,000 participants, primarily nursing students, engaged with the curriculum, indicating its broad reach and potential impact in improving the care of domestic violence victims in clinical settings.

NCBI (Pubmed)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Serious gaming: A tool to educate health care providers about domestic violence. Mason, R., Turner, L.[2020]

The Domestic Violence Education Project successfully implemented universal screening for domestic violence among women in care, achieving all its objectives through policy reform, education, and advocacy from 1994 to 1998.

Evaluations showed promising changes in clinical behavior and increased advocacy among participants, indicating that the project could serve as a replicable model for improving healthcare provider attitudes towards domestic violence.

NCBI (Pubmed)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The American College of Nurse-Midwives' Domestic Violence Education Project: evaluation and results. Paluzzi, P., Gaffikin, L., Nanda, J.[2019]

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