|
| Author (year) country | Type of informal supporter/sample | Training intervention | Study design and methods | Quality appraisal |
|
Choi et al. (2019) [54] USA
Contributed to stage 2 synthesis | Faith leaders
Total sample n = 54
Female 24%, male 76%; ethnic/racial minority (Korean or Korean American) 100% | Intervention name: Korean clergy for healthy families
Attendance: Voluntary
Delivery: Online
Format: Presentation/lecture
Duration: Between 1.5 and 3 hours
Content: Understanding DVA within Korean community and how to respond
Trainer: Unspecified | Study design:
Randomised controlled trial
Data collection: instruments
Self-completion questionnaire, unvalidated, researcher developed
Data analysis:
Analysis of variance | MMAT
Quantitative randomized controlled trial (RCT) 100%
AACODS
N/A |
|
Debbonaire et al. (2011) [55] UK
Contributed to stage 1 synthesis (no quantitative data for stage 2) | Workplace colleagues
Total sample n = 28 (T1 questionnaires), n = 8 (T2 questionnaires and interviews)
Female (100%)
Ethnicity not reported | Intervention name: not reported
Attendance: Voluntary
Delivery: Face to face
Format: Presentation/lecture
Duration: 2-day train the trainers session for HR professionals, “short” briefings for managers
Content: Not reported
Trainer: Domestic abuse organisation ran training for HR; HR ran training for managers
Multicomponent intervention | Study design:
Before and after Qualitative
Data collection: instruments
Qualitative interviews
Self-completion questionnaires
Unvalidated, researcher developed
Data analysis:
SPSS
“Qualitative analysis techniques” | MMAT
Quantitative nonrandomised 0% Qualitative 40%
AACODS
Strengths: Authority, coverage, date, significance
Weaknesses: Accuracy, objectivity |
|
Drumm et al. (2018) [56] USA
Contributed to stage 2 synthesis | Faith leaders
Total sample n = 104 (pre- and post-test), n = 72 (1 yr follow up)
Female (∼4%) and male (96%), ethnic/racial minority (∼16% hispanic) and majority (∼84% white) | Intervention name: not reported
Attendance: Compulsory
Delivery: Face to face
Format: Workshop
Duration: 4 hours
Content: Understanding and responding to DVA
Trainer: Researchers/Unspecified | Study design:
Before and after
Data collection: instruments
Self-completion questionnaire, researcher developed
Data analysis:
Analysis of variance | MMAT
Quantitative nonrandomised: Immediate 80%
12 months 40%
AACODS
N/A |
|
Flanigan (2011) [57] Canada
Contributed to stage 1 and stage 2 syntheses | Workplace colleagues; community members
Total sample n = 1899 (surveys), n = 60 (interviews)
Female and male (unspecified gender ratio), ethnicity not reported | Intervention name: Neighbours, friends and families campaign
Attendance: Voluntary
Delivery: Face to face
Format: Presentation/lecture
Duration: one off, one hour session for workplace; unspecified for community
Content: “basic information on risk factors and warning signs”; unspecified for community training
Trainer: public service facilitators in workplaces (who had received two-day training session to deliver presentation); unspecified for community training
Multicomponent intervention | Study design:
Before and after, qualitative interviews, quantitative surveys
Data collection: instruments
Self-completion questionnaire, unvalidated researcher developed
Data analysis:
SPSS, not reported | MMAT
Qualitative 20%
Quantitative nonrandomised 0%
Quantitative descriptive 20%
AACODS
Strengths: Authority, coverage, date, significance
Weaknesses: Accuracy, objectivity |
|
| Glass et al. (2010) [58] USA Contributed to stage 1 and stage 2 syntheses | Workplace colleagues
Total sample n = 53
Female (∼50%) and male (∼50%), ethnicity not reported | Intervention name: not reported
Attendance: Not reported
Delivery: Online
Format: Video
Duration: one off, one hour session
Content: The impacts of abuse, strategies used by abusers to control victim, support needs of victims, methods for supporting/helping victims
Trainer: Automated, online (no human trainer) | Study design:
Qualitative focus groups, before and after, quantitative questionnaires
Data collection: instruments
Self-completion questionnaire
Unvalidated, researcher developed
Data analysis:
Analysis of variance
Qualitative analysis not reported | MMAT
Qualitative 40%
Quantitative nonrandomised 80%
Quantitative descriptive 80%
AACODS
N/A |
|
Pillinger (2020) [59] global
Contributed to stage 1 synthesis | Workplace colleagues
Total sample not reported
Gender and ethnicity not reported | Intervention name: Vodafone’s global policy on domestic violence and abuse
Attendance: Compulsory in some workplaces
Delivery: Online
Format: Presentation/lecture, webinars
Duration: Not reported
Content: recognising the signs of domestic violence and abuse, knowing how to respond and refer
Trainer: Unspecified but carried out in partnership with domestic abuse organisations
Multicomponent | Study design:
Qualitative interviews, quantitative questionnaires
Data collection: instruments
Self-completion questionnaire
Data analysis:
Not reported | MMAT
Qualitative 20%
Quantitative descriptive 0%
AACODS
Strengths: Authority, date, significance Weaknesses: Accuracy, coverage, objectivity |
|
Ross (2013) [60] USA
Contributed to stage 1 and stage 2 syntheses | Peers
Total sample n = 13
Female (100%), ethnic/racial minority: African American (20%), African (26.6%), Caribbean (40%). Ethnic/racial majority: White (6.7%) | Intervention name: Not reported
Attendance: Voluntary
Delivery: Face to face
Format: Unspecified
Duration: 18 hours in total (9 × 2 hour sessions)
Content: Understanding DVA and support/services
Trainer: Researcher/unspecified | Study design:
Qualitative questionnaires, RCT
Data collection: instruments
Instruments: validated domestic violence self-efficacy (DVSE) adult self-expression scale (ASES) Herth hope index (HHI)
Data analysis:
SPSS, t tests, chi-square, and Pearson (r) analyses | MMAT
Qualitative 40%
Quantitative RCT 40%
AACODS
N/A |
|
Schuler et al. (2011) [61] Vietnam
Contributed to stage 1 synthesis | Faith leaders, community members, neighbours
Total sample n = 146 (interviews)
Gender and ethnicity not reported | Intervention name: not reported
Attendance: not reported
Delivery: Face to face
Format: Workshops; unspecified
Duration: unspecified
Content: unspecified
Trainer: unspecified
Multicomponent intervention | Study design:
Qualitative interviews and focus groups
Data collection: instruments
Unvalidated, researcher developed
Data analysis:
Grounded theory approach | MMAT
Qualitative 100%
AACODS
N/A |
|
Women’s Aid (2020) [62] UK
Contributed to stage 1 and stage 2 syntheses | Community members
Total sample n = 645 (sample 1, before and after evaluation forms), n = 424 (sample 2 questionnaires and qualitative interviews)
Female (81.5% sample 1, 99% sample 2), male (18.5% sample 1, 1% sample 2), nonbinary (0.3% sample 1)
Ethnic minority (sample 1 Asian/Asian British 6.5%, Black/African/Caribbean/Black British African 3.2%, mixed ethnic 2.2%, sample 2 16% BAME or other white) and ethnic majority (sample 1 73.7% white British; sample 2 84% white British) | Intervention name:
Ask Me
Attendance: Voluntary
Delivery: Face to face
Format: Presentations/lectures; workshops
Duration: 12 hours
Content: Awareness of DVA, challenging myths, listening to victim-survivors, supporting and signposting
Trainer: specialists in domestic abuse alongside partnership with domestic abuse organisations
Multicomponent intervention | Study design:
Qualitative interviews before and after,
Data collection: instruments
Self-completion questionnaire,
unvalidated, researcher developed
Data analysis:
Not reported | MMAT
Qualitative 20%
Quantitative nonrandomised 0%
AACODS
Strengths: Authority, date, significance Weaknesses: accuracy, coverage, objectivity |
|
