Enhancement of Strength at Home Implementation to Prevent Violence and Related Outcomes
Abstract
This 4-year proposed study addresses FY22 TBIPHRP PCRA Focus Area 2d, Prevent and Assess. This study seeks to examine new implementation practices, developed in collaborative with a military Community Advisory Board, for screening and identification of military couples in need of preventive intervention on a military installation, Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Those identified through these revised procedures will be offered the opportunity to voluntary participate in the Strength at Home-Couples (SAH-C) prevention intervention. This evidence- based virtual intervention, shown in prior funded CDMRP studies to prevent and end physical, psychological, and sexual intimate partner violence (IPV), and to ameliorate secondary problems including suicidality, will be offered in Garrison in a confidential manner. The proposed approach will build upon our recent CDMRP-funded implementation work by addressing challenges related to recruitment and stigma of receiving family-based care, optimizing messaging and strategies for successful implementation. Specific outcomes to be examined in the proposed study include physical, psychological, and sexual IPV, as well as suicidality, posttraumatic stress disorder, and alcohol use problems. The knowledge to be learned from this study may assist in better understanding the cross-cutting impacts of the SAH-C program, and also how the program can be implemented in a way that maximizes facilitators of success while minimizing the barriers. There is a need to elucidate upstream factors that may be related to multiple outcomes in military settings. The current study examines a program based on a social information processing model that has demonstrated relevance for the broad range of outcomes to be examined in the current study. Thus, this study may show that SAH-C, based on this integrative social information processing model, can address multiple problems at once, maximizing impact. Further, there is a need to better understand how to implement prevention interventions in the military setting to prevent problems related to self- and other-violence and trauma-related problems. The current study proposes to address these issues using an intervention that has been shown effective in prior CDMRP studies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 04, 2024
- Source ID
- HT94252310622
Entities
People
- Casey Taft
Organizations
- Boston University Medical Campus
- United States Army