Examining Virtual Delivery of Strength at Home for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration

doi:10.3390/bs14121127

. 2024 Nov 25;14(12):1127.

doi: 10.3390/bs14121127.

Examining Virtual Delivery of Strength at Home for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration

Casey T Taft^{1

2}, Justin K Benzer^{3

4}, Megan Kopitsky¹, Suzannah K Creech^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Behavioral Science Division, National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, 150 South Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02130, USA.
² Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
³ VA VISN 17 Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans and the Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System, 4800 Memorial Drive Building 93, Waco, TX 76711, USA.
⁴ Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, 1601 Trinity Street Building A, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

PMID: 39767268
PMCID: PMC11673092
DOI: 10.3390/bs14121127

Examining Virtual Delivery of Strength at Home for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration

Casey T Taft et al. Behav Sci (Basel). 2024.

. 2024 Nov 25;14(12):1127.

doi: 10.3390/bs14121127.

Authors

Casey T Taft^{1

2}, Justin K Benzer^{3

4}, Megan Kopitsky¹, Suzannah K Creech^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Behavioral Science Division, National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, 150 South Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02130, USA.
² Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
³ VA VISN 17 Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans and the Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System, 4800 Memorial Drive Building 93, Waco, TX 76711, USA.
⁴ Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, 1601 Trinity Street Building A, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

PMID: 39767268
PMCID: PMC11673092
DOI: 10.3390/bs14121127

Abstract

This study examined the effectiveness of the virtual delivery of the Strength at Home (SAH) intervention program for intimate partner violence in a sample of 605 military veterans across 69 Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers through a national implementation of the program. Outcome measures included physical IPV, psychological IPV, coercive control behaviors, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and alcohol misuse. Significant pre-intervention to post-intervention reductions were found for all the outcomes, with similar effect size estimates relative to a prior investigation of in-person-delivered SAH through the same national VA implementation. Study findings suggest that the virtual delivery of SAH may be as effective as in-person delivery which has important implications for program access and impact.

Keywords: Strength at Home; implementation; intimate partner violence; partner aggression; technology-delivered intervention.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results.

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[1] Leemis R.W., Friar N., Khatiwada S., Chen M.S., Kresnow M., Smith S.G., Caslin S., Basile K.C. The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2016/2017 Report on Intimate Partner Violence. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Atlanta, GA, USA: 2022.

[2] Leemis R.W., Friar N., Khatiwada S., Chen M.S., Kresnow M., Smith S.G., Caslin S., Basile K.C. The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2016/2017 Report on Intimate Partner Violence. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Atlanta, GA, USA: 2022.

[3] Desmarais S.L., Reeves K.A., Nicholls T.L., Telford R.P., Fiebert M.S. Prevalence of physical violence in intimate relationships, part 1: Rates of male and female victimization. Partn. Abus. 2012;3:140–169. doi: 10.1891/1946-6560.3.2.140. - DOI

[4] Desmarais S.L., Reeves K.A., Nicholls T.L., Telford R.P., Fiebert M.S. Prevalence of physical violence in intimate relationships, part 1: Rates of male and female victimization. Partn. Abus. 2012;3:140–169. doi: 10.1891/1946-6560.3.2.140. - DOI

[5] Desmarais S.L., Reeves K.A., Nicholls T.L., Telford R.P., Fiebert M.S. Prevalence of physical violence in intimate relationships, part 2: Rates of male and female perpetration. Partn. Abus. 2012;3:170–198. doi: 10.1891/1946-6560.3.2.170. - DOI

[6] Desmarais S.L., Reeves K.A., Nicholls T.L., Telford R.P., Fiebert M.S. Prevalence of physical violence in intimate relationships, part 2: Rates of male and female perpetration. Partn. Abus. 2012;3:170–198. doi: 10.1891/1946-6560.3.2.170. - DOI

[7] Afifi T.O., MacMillan H., Cox B.J., Asmundson G.J., Stein M.B., Sareen J. Mental health correlates of intimate partner violence in marital relationships in a nationally representative sample of males and females. J. Interpers. Violence. 2009;24:1398–1417. doi: 10.1177/0886260508322192. - DOI - PubMed

[8] Afifi T.O., MacMillan H., Cox B.J., Asmundson G.J., Stein M.B., Sareen J. Mental health correlates of intimate partner violence in marital relationships in a nationally representative sample of males and females. J. Interpers. Violence. 2009;24:1398–1417. doi: 10.1177/0886260508322192. - DOI - PubMed

[9] Black M.C. Intimate partner violence and adverse health consequences: Implications for clinicians. Am. J. Lifestyle Med. 2011;5:428–439. doi: 10.1177/1559827611410265. - DOI

[10] Black M.C. Intimate partner violence and adverse health consequences: Implications for clinicians. Am. J. Lifestyle Med. 2011;5:428–439. doi: 10.1177/1559827611410265. - DOI

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