| Methods |
Study described as multi‐stage, longitudinal and randomised. Mixed‐methods trial. An urban sample of women was individually randomised to treatment groups (n = 92); 12 rural county health departments were randomised by site, 6 to treatment and 6 to placebo (cluster‐randomisation, n = 147). |
| Participants |
Participants were English speaking women, 31 weeks’ gestation and higher reporting abuse within the last 12 months, those registered in health department perinatal home visitation programs. |
| Interventions |
The usual care (UC) group received the standard home visitation (HV) and the Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation Program (DOVE) was the intervention.DOVE intervention group received the standard HV in addition to the DOVE IPV intervention. Women in the DOVE intervention group received 3 prenatal and 3 postnatal DOVE sessions in addition to their HV protocols. |
| Outcomes |
Recruitment rate and retention rate. |
| Notes |
None of these outcomes are relevant to our review but future studies may report our primary and secondary outcomes. |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Randomised. Sequence generation not described. |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Unclear risk. Allocation concealment not described. |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Low risk |
A total of 339 abused pregnant women were eligible for randomisation; 42 women refused, and 239 women were randomly assigned (124 DOVE; 115 usual care), resulting in a 71% recruitment rate. Retention rates from baseline included 93% at delivery, 80% at 3 months, 76% at 6 months, and 72% at 12 months. |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
High risk |
No original outcome is reported in this publication. |
| Other bias |
Unclear risk |
Unknown. |
| Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Not clear, blinding not mentioned. |
| Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Not clear, blinding not mentioned. |
