TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence of Help-Seeking Behaviors Among Black Women Under Community Supervision in New York City
T2 - A Plea for Culturally Tailored Intimate Partner Violence Interventions
AU - Goddard-Eckrich, Dawn
AU - Henry, Brandy F.
AU - Sardana, Srishti
AU - Thomas, Brittany V.
AU - Richer, Ariel
AU - Hunt, Timothy
AU - Chang, Mingway
AU - Johnson, Karen
AU - Gilbert, Louisa
N1 - Funding Information:
WINGS was a randomized controlled trial funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The study focused on women who use drugs or engage in binge drinking and were under community supervision in New York City. The study compared two interventions related to IPV screening and prevention: (1) a single-session, self-paced, computerized IPV screening plus a brief IPV prevention tool (computerized WINGS) and (2) the same screening plus IPV prevention material conducted by study case managers (case manager WINGS).
Funding Information:
The study was funded by an NIDA grant, R34DA 031325, to L.G. During this work, B.F.H. was supported by the NIDA (Award No. T32DA037801). Funding sources played no role in data collection, analysis, interpretation, article preparation, or the decision to submit the article for publication.
Publisher Copyright:
© Dawn Goddard-Eckrich et al., 2022.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Background: Black women involved in the legal system disproportionately experience intimate partner violence (IPV); however, current research does not satisfactorily describe the risk and protective factors associated with IPV among Black women under community supervision. Methods: We conducted a subgroup analysis of Black women (N = 128) using data from a randomized controlled trial that evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of two IPV screening and prevention programs for women under community supervision. Participants in the original study were randomized into two IPV prevention conditions—computerized or case manager Women Initiating New Goals of Safety (WINGS). In this study, we examine the effects of that study’s two conditions on linkage to IPV services and secondary outcomes, specifically among Black participants who experienced physical, sexual, and psychological IPV. Results: Both conditions showed significant reductions in days of substance use abstinence over the 3-month period among Black women who experienced sexual or verbal IPV. Participants in the case manager arm were 14 times more likely to receive IPV services in the past 90 days—from baseline to the 3-month follow-up (adjusted odds ratio = 14.45, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.25 to 166.51, p = 0.032). Participants in the computerized arm were significantly more likely to report receiving social support from baseline to the 3-month follow-up assessment (regression coefficient [b] = 2.27, 95% CI = 0.43 to 4.11, p = 0.015). Conclusions: Although both conditions showed significant reductions in the number of days of abstinence from substance use among this subgroup of Black women, the findings showed differential effectiveness between the computerized WINGS arm and the case manager WINGS arm in improving social support and linkage to services. These findings may indicate that different modalities of WINGS may work better for specific activities and point to the need for a hybrid format that optimizes the use of distinct modalities for delivering activities.
AB - Background: Black women involved in the legal system disproportionately experience intimate partner violence (IPV); however, current research does not satisfactorily describe the risk and protective factors associated with IPV among Black women under community supervision. Methods: We conducted a subgroup analysis of Black women (N = 128) using data from a randomized controlled trial that evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of two IPV screening and prevention programs for women under community supervision. Participants in the original study were randomized into two IPV prevention conditions—computerized or case manager Women Initiating New Goals of Safety (WINGS). In this study, we examine the effects of that study’s two conditions on linkage to IPV services and secondary outcomes, specifically among Black participants who experienced physical, sexual, and psychological IPV. Results: Both conditions showed significant reductions in days of substance use abstinence over the 3-month period among Black women who experienced sexual or verbal IPV. Participants in the case manager arm were 14 times more likely to receive IPV services in the past 90 days—from baseline to the 3-month follow-up (adjusted odds ratio = 14.45, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.25 to 166.51, p = 0.032). Participants in the computerized arm were significantly more likely to report receiving social support from baseline to the 3-month follow-up assessment (regression coefficient [b] = 2.27, 95% CI = 0.43 to 4.11, p = 0.015). Conclusions: Although both conditions showed significant reductions in the number of days of abstinence from substance use among this subgroup of Black women, the findings showed differential effectiveness between the computerized WINGS arm and the case manager WINGS arm in improving social support and linkage to services. These findings may indicate that different modalities of WINGS may work better for specific activities and point to the need for a hybrid format that optimizes the use of distinct modalities for delivering activities.
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U2 - 10.1089/whr.2022.0004
DO - 10.1089/whr.2022.0004
M3 - Article
C2 - 36479367
AN - SCOPUS:85144381643
SN - 2688-4844
VL - 3
SP - 867
EP - 876
JO - Women's Health Reports
JF - Women's Health Reports
IS - 1
ER -
