TY  - SER
AU  - Turner, William
AU  - Morgan, Karen
AU  - Hester, Marianne
AU  - Feder, Gene
AU  - Cramer, Helen
TI  - Methodological challenges in group-based randomised controlled trials for intimate partner violence perpetrators: a meta-summary
PY  - 2023///
PB  - COP Madrid, 
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - INTERVENTION
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - PERPETRATOR PROGRAMMES
KW  - PROGRAMME EVALUATION
KW  - RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS
KW  - SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
KW  - INTERNATIONAL
KW  - UNITED KINGDOM
N1  - Psychosocial Intervention, 2023, 32(2): 123-136
N2  - Evidence for treatment effects of group-based Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) perpetrators programmes remains, at best, inconclusive. In the present review, systematic/meta-analytic reviews were used to identify randomised controlled trials and a meta-summary approach was employed to identify methodological challenges in the design and conduct of these trials. Of the fifteen studies identified, seven were comparative effectiveness trials. A range of methodological challenges were also identified by the trialists; source of outcome data, treatment modality, attrition and sample characteristics were the most frequently mentioned. Although there are only a few randomised controlled trials compared to non randomised studies, the findings of both highlight the need to invest in the development of innovative and/or combined IPV treatment programmes to address co-occurring issues such as substance use and trauma. The summary of methodological challenges will provide the first step in the development of methods guidance for researchers working in this area. (Authors' abstract). Record #8343
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5093/pi2023a9
ER  -