In order to intervene in this inter-generational cycle of abuse, interventions must address childhood abuse and respond appropriately to children who have witnessed IPV against their mothers.
Also urging researchers and policy makers to think beyond an individualized focus on the causes, consequences and costs of violence and abuse, to the implementation of interventions, in the form of health and social services and policies, that consider the contexts in which people's lives are experienced.
The variable that demonstrated the greatest association with rehospitalization was the pathological use of psychoactive substances, which is similar to the findings in the majority of studies [ 17] and further emphasizes the importance of substance abuse interventions to reduce the risk of rehospitalization [ 21, 22].
The proposals, while quite general, raise all the fundamental issues: penance for past mistakes, pastoral care for victims of past abuses, the establishment of intervention teams and lay-dominated review boards, the reporting of cases to civil and ecclesiastical authorities, administrative action against suspected or guilty priests and the screening process for seminary candidates.
This review includes all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions designed to prevent abuse among mothers identified as high-risk.
A quasi-experimental design will be followed with surveys at twelve health facilities in four districts and one large maternity hospital in Nairobi and areas before and after the introduction of disrespect and abuse (D&A) interventions.
This article identifies and describes several methodologic challenges encountered in economic evaluations of substance abuse interventions for adolescents.
Because it is well known that the power to measure differences between two groups is typically best with an even distribution of any given fixed sample size, great emphasis is often placed on exactly equal treatment and control allocations in evaluations of substance abuse interventions.
It is known that economic evaluations of alcohol abuse interventions performed from a healthcare perspective underestimate true costs, because only healthcare costs are involved in this kind of studies.
For other topics of established importance for population health, such as healthy nutrition and physical activity promotion, obesity prevention, and prevention of alcohol and drug abuse, fewer interventions have been submitted.
Whilst previous research has shown coaches can be trained to deliver smoking prevention messages through sport [ 21], a review of school-based drug abuse prevention interventions documented extensive training, including follow-ups, was associated with higher quality implementation and outcomes [ 44].
