Prevention: Research and Programmes

Vahedi, L., Stark, L., Ding, R., Masboungi, C., Erskine, D., Poulton, C., & Seff, I. (2024). A qualitative investigation of gender-based violence prevention and response using digital technologies in low resource settings and refugee populations. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 15(1), 2347106. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2024.2347106

Celik, P. (2024). The effectiveness of school-based child sexual abuse prevention programmes among primary school-aged children: A systematic review. International Journal of Educational Research Open, 7, 100348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2024.100348

Clark, C. J., Al-Hamdan, Z., Bawadi, H., Alsalem, H., Hamadneh, J., Abu Al-Haija, A., Hadd, A. R., Spencer, R. A., Bergenfeld, I., & Hall-Clifford, R. (2024). Preventing violence and enhancing mental health among clients of an invitro fertilization clinic in Jordan: results of a pre/post pilot test of the use of cognitive behavioral therapy. Reproductive Health, 21(1), 117. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-024-01860-8

Sakellari, E., Berglund, M., Lagiou, A., Sotto-mayor De Carvalho Pinto, M. L., Ferreira Dos Santos, M. A., Lahti, M., & Murto, T. (2024). Perceptions and educational needs of social and healthcare professionals in the prevention of domestic violence – A focus group study. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 40, 100956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2024.100956

Pastor‐Moreno, G., Saletti‐Cuesta, L., Henares‐Montiel, J., Escudero‐Carretero, M. J., Higueras‐Callejón, C., & Ruiz‐Pérez, I. (2024). Systematic review of healthcare interventions for reducing gender‐based violence impact on the mental health of women with disabilities. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, jnu.12985. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12985

Seto, M. C., Roche, K., Rodrigues, N. C., Curry, S., & Letourneau, E. (2024). Evaluating Child Sexual Abuse Perpetration Prevention Efforts: A Systematic Review. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2024.2356194

Vara-Horna, A. A., Giraldo-Mejia, W., Guzman-Melgar, C., Quintana-Otiniano, M., Navarro-Viacava, M., & Delgado-Zegarra, J. (2024). SDGs Managers’ Assessment Bias and Their Implications for Preventing Violence Against Women in Companies. Violence Against Women, 10778012241251970. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241251970

Cuartas, J., Salazar, A., Backhaus, S., Little, M. T., McCoy, D., Yoshikawa, H., Bass, M., Metheny, N., & Knaul, F. (2024). Strategies to Prevent Violence Against Children in the Home: A Systematic Review of Reviews. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 15248380241247018. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380241247018

Preventing Child, Early, and Forced Marriage and Countering Violent Extremism in Cabo Delgado: Implementation Lessons from a Conflict Setting - Pathfinder International. (2024, April 22). https://www.pathfinder.org/publications/preventing-child-early-and-forced-marriage-and-countering-violent-extremism-in-cabo-delgado-implementation-lessons-from-a-conflict-setting/

Andersen, L. P., Jaspers, S., Andersen, D., Karlsen, I., & Aust, B. (2024). A participatory and comprehensive intervention to improve violence prevention in two high-risk occupations: effect and process evaluation of a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 1043. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18527-5

McAlpine, K., Dennis, R., Mkude, M., & Maro, S. (2024). Practical tools for practitioners: Unravelling power dynamics as a prelude to preventing violence against women and children. Child Protection and Practice, 1, 100011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chipro.2024.100011

Peterman, A. (2024). Edutainment to prevent violence against women and children (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. 4755968). https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4755968

Turner, E., Parkes, J., Nagasha, S. N., Naker, D., Nakuti, J., Namy, S., & Devries, K. (2024). Sexual violence through corporal punishment: Rethinking siloes in school violence prevention using feminist theory and data from Uganda. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 100413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100413

Melendez-Torres, G. J., Orr, N., Farmer, C., Shaw, N., Chollet, A., Rizzo, A. J., Kiff, F., Rigby, E., Hagell, A., Priolo Filho, S. R., Taylor, B., Young, H., Bonell, C., & Berry, V. (2024). School-based interventions TO Prevent Dating and Relationship Violence and Gender-Based Violence: STOP-DRV-GBV systematic review. Public Health Research, 12(3), 1–192. https://doi.org/10.3310/KTWR6997

Cochrane, M., Szilassy, E., Coope, C., Emsley, E., Johnson, M., Feder, G., & Barbosa, E. C. (2024). Primary care system-level training and support programme for the secondary prevention of domestic violence and abuse: a cost-effectiveness feasibility model. BMJ Open, 14(1), e071300. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-071300

Bacchus, L. J., Colombini, M., Pearson, I., Gevers, A., Stöckl, H., & Guedes, A. C. (2024). Interventions that prevent or respond to intimate partner violence against women and violence against children: a systematic review. The Lancet Public Health, 9(5), e326–e338. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00048-3

Miele, C., Maquigneau, A., Joyal, C. C., Bertsch, I., Gangi, O., Gonthier, H., Rawlinson, C., Vigourt-Oudart, S., Symphorien, E., Heasman, A., Letourneau, E., Moncany, A.-H., & Lacambre, M. (2023). International guidelines for the prevention of sexual violence: A systematic review and perspective of WHO, UN Women, UNESCO, and UNICEF’s publications. Child Abuse & Neglect, 146, 106497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106497

Getzzg. (2023, October 20). Effectiveness of community mobilisation and group-based interventions for preventing intimate partner violence against women in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JOGH. https://jogh.org/2023/jogh-13-04115/

Chatterji, S., Boyer, C., Sharma, V., Abramsky, T., Levtov, R., Doyle, K., Harvey, S., & Heise, L. (2023). Optimizing the Construction of Outcome Measures for Impact Evaluations of Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Interventions. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(15–16), 9105–9131. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231162887

Machisa, M. T., Mahlangu, P., Chirwa, E., Nunze, N., Sikweyiya, Y., Dartnall, E., Pillay, M., & Jewkes, R. (2023). Ntombi Vimbela! Sexual violence risk reduction intervention: pre and one-year post assessments from a single arm pilot feasibility study among female students in South Africa. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 1242. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16149-x

Janowski, R., Green, O., Shenderovich, Y., Stern, D., Clements, L., Wamoyi, J., Wambura, M., Lachman, J. M., Melendez-Torres, G. J., Gardner, F., Baerecke, L., Te Winkel, E., Booij, A., Setton, O., Tsoanyane, S., Mjwara, S., Christine, L., Ornellas, A., Chetty, N., … Cluver, L. D. (2023). Optimising engagement in a digital parenting intervention to prevent violence against adolescents in Tanzania: protocol for a cluster randomised factorial trial. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 1224. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15989-x

Yount, K. M., Anderson, K. M., Trang, Q. T., & Bergenfeld, I. (2023). Preventing sexual violence in Vietnam: qualitative findings from high school, university, and civil society key informants across regions. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 1114. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15973-5

Silverman, J. G., Brooks, M. I., Aliou, S., Johns, N. E., Challa, S., Nouhou, A. M., Tomar, S., Baker, H., Boyce, S. C., McDougal, L., DeLong, S., & Raj, A. (2023). Effects of the reaching married adolescents program on modern contraceptive use and intimate partner violence: results of a cluster randomized controlled trial among married adolescent girls and their husbands in Dosso, Niger. Reproductive Health, 20(1), 83. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-023-01609-9

Sutherland, G., Hargrave, J., Krnjacki, L., Llewellyn, G., Kavanagh, A., & Vaughan, C. (2023). A Systematic Review of Interventions Addressing the Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women With Disability. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 152483802311759. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380231175932

Bergenfeld, I., Minh, T. H., & Yount, K. M. (2023). Measuring Rape Empathy Among University Men in Vietnam: Development and Validation of the Rape Empathy Scale 10 (RES-10). Psychological Test Adaptation and Development, 4(1), 116–127. https://doi.org/10.1027/2698-1866/a000040

Sherwood, J., Phuengsamran, D., Janyam, S., Murray, S. M., Holliday, C. N., Darawuttimaprakorn, N., & Decker, M. R. (2023). Violence Victimization and Alcohol Use Among Venue-Based Female Sex Workers in Pattaya, Thailand: Unpacking the Temporal Relationship. Violence Against Women, 107780122311779. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012231177997

Bloom, T. L., Perrin, N., Brown, M. L., Campbell, J., Clough, A., Grace, K. T., Laughon, K., Messing, J., Eden, K. B., Turner, R., & Glass, N. (2023). Concerned friends of intimate partner violence survivors: results from the myPlan randomized controlled trial on college campuses. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 1033. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15918-y

Willoughby, M., Janca, E., Kwon, S., Johnston, B., Collins, T., Kinner, S. A., Johns, D., Gallant, D., Glover-Wright, C., & Borschmann, R. (2023). Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Justice-Involved Young Women: A Scoping Review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 152483802311711. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380231171183

Buller, A. M., Pichon, M., Hidrobo, M., Mulford, M., Amare, T., Sintayehu, W., Tadesse, S., & Ranganathan, M. (2023). Cash plus programming and intimate partner violence: a qualitative evaluation of the benefits of group-based platforms for delivering activities in support of the Ethiopian government’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP). BMJ Open, 13(5), e069939. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069939

Arora, N., dit Sourd, R. C., Quaife, M., Vassall, A., Ferrari, G., Alangea, D. O., Tawiah, T., Dwommoh Prah, R. K., Jewkes, R., Hanson, K., & Torres Rueda, S. (2023). The stated preferences of community-based volunteers for roles in the prevention of violence against women and girls in Ghana: A discrete choice analysis. Social Science & Medicine, 324, 115870. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115870

Baker-Henningham, H., Bowers, M., & Francis, T. (2023). The Process of Scaling Early Childhood Violence Prevention Programs in Jamaica. Pediatrics, 151(Supplement 2), e2023060221M. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2023-060221M

Pagani, S., Hunter, S. C., Lawrence, D., & Elliott, M. A. (2023). Evaluating Mentors in Violence Prevention: A Longitudinal, Multilevel Assessment of Outcome Changes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01781-y

Pérez-Martínez, V., Marcos-Marcos, J., Cerdán-Torregrosa, A., Briones-Vozmediano, E., Sanz-Barbero, B., Davó-Blanes, Mc., Daoud, N., Edwards, C., Salazar, M., La Parra-Casado, D., & Vives-Cases, C. (2023). Positive Masculinities and Gender-Based Violence Educational Interventions Among Young People: A Systematic Review. Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 24(2), 468–486. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380211030242

Edwards, K. M., Kumar, M., Waterman, E. A., Mullet, N., Madeghe, B., & Musindo, O. (2023). Programs to Prevent Violence Against Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 152483802311607. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380231160742

Rudolph, J. I., Van Berkel, S. R., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Walsh, K., Straker, D., & Campbell, T. (2023). Parental Involvement in Programs to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse: A Systematic Review of Four Decades of Research. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 152483802311564. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380231156408

Gurbuz Cuneo, A., Vaillant, J., Koussoubé, E., Pierotti, R. S., Falb, K., & Kabeya, R. (2023). Prevention, Cessation, or harm reduction: Heterogeneous effects of an intimate partner violence prevention program in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. PLOS ONE, 18(3), e0282339. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282339

Falb, K. L., Asghar, K., Blackwell, A., Baseme, S., Nyanguba, M., Roth, D., & Hategekimana, J. de D. (2023). Improving family functioning and reducing violence in the home in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial of Safe at Home. BMJ Open, 13(3), e065759. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065759

Mannell, J., Washington, L., Khaula, S., Khoza, Z., Mkhwanazi, S., Burgess, R. A., Brown, L. J., Jewkes, R., Shai, N., Willan, S., & Gibbs, A. (2023). Challenges and opportunities in coproduction: reflections on working with young people to develop an intervention to prevent violence in informal settlements in South Africa. BMJ Global Health, 8(3), e011463. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-011463

Kewley, S., Mhlanga-Gunda, R., & Van Hout, M.-C. (2023). Preventing child sexual abuse before it occurs: examining the scale and nature of secondary public health prevention approaches. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 29(1), 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2021.2000651

Mannell, J., Tevaga, P., Heinrich, S., Fruean, S., Chang, S. L., Lowe, H., Brown, L. J., Vaczy, C., Tanielu, H., Cowley-Malcolm, E., & Suaalii-Sauni, T. (2023). Love Shouldn’t Hurt – E le Sauā le Alofa: Co-designing a theory of change for preventing violence against women in Samoa. Global Public Health, 18(1), 2201632. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2023.2201632

Banyard, V. L., Edwards, K. M., Rizzo, A. J., Segura-Montagut, A., Greenberg, P., & Kearns, M. C. (2023). Mixed Methods Community-Engaged Evaluation: Integrating Interventionist and Action Research Frameworks to Understand a Community-Building Violence Prevention Program. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 17(4), 350–372. https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898221108013

Guastaferro, K., Shipe, S. L., Connell, C. M., Letourneau, E. J., & Noll, J. G. (2023). Implementation of a Universal School-Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program: A Longitudinal Cohort Study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(15–16), 8785–8802. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231158765

Melendez-Torres, G. J., Bonell, C., Shaw, N., Orr, N., Chollet, A., Rizzo, A., Rigby, E., Hagell, A., Young, H., Berry, V., Humphreys, D. K., & Farmer, C. (2023). Are school-based interventions to prevent dating and relationship violence and gender-based violence equally effective for all students? Systematic review and equity analysis of moderation analyses in randomised trials. Preventive Medicine Reports, 34, 102277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102277

Jocson, R. M., Alampay, L. P., Lachman, J. M., Maramba, D. H. A., Melgar, M. E., Ward, C. L., Madrid, B. J., & Gardner, F. (2023). Pre-post Mixed Methods Study of a Parent and Teen Support Intervention to Prevent Violence Against Adolescents in the Philippines. Journal of Adolescent Health, 73(1), 102–109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.02.027

Pereira, A., Akaligaung, A. J., Aborigo, R., Peterman, A., Palermo, T., & Barrington, C. (2023). ‘Joy, not sorrow’: Men’s perspectives on gender, violence, and cash transfers targeted to women in northern Ghana. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 3, 100275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100275

Ison, J., & Matthewson, G. (2023). More than a dot point: Connecting primary prevention of violence against women and public transport. Journal of Transport & Health, 30, 101591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2023.101591

Park, S., & Kim, S.-H. (2023). A systematic review and meta-analysis of bystander intervention programs for intimate partner violence and sexual assault. Psychology of Violence, 13(2), 93–106. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000456

Andajani-Sutjahjo, S., & Neang, M. (2023). “Help Children Walking on the Right Path”: Understanding Parents’ and Grandparents’ Perceptions on Violence Against Children in Cambodia and Prevention Strategies. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(3–4), 3924–3949. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221109923

Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. (2023). Approches sexotransformatrices à la prévention primaire de la violence à l’égard des femmes et des filles: Résumé d’un examen sur l’étendue des connaissances issues d’articles universitaires. Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. https://communicatingequality.ca/wp-content/uploads/Scoping-Review-Executive-Summary-French.pdf

Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. (2023). Gender-transformative approaches to the primary prevention of violence against women and girls: Summary of a scoping review of academic literature. Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. https://communicatingequality.ca/wp-content/uploads/Scoping-Review-Executive-Summary-Aug-23-1.pdf