Trial Summary
What is the purpose of this trial?The current research project aims to assess the effectiveness of the ©Violence, Evidence, Guidance, and Action (VEGA) Family Violence Education Resources (VEGA Project, 2019) in improving the knowledge, self-efficacy, and clinical responses of clinical psychology doctoral students to family violence in clinical settings. The VEGA on-line training is a collection of family violence online education resources designed to inform health and social service practitioners about family violence in a Canadian context, including definitions of family violence, mandatory reporting duties, effective responding to survivors, and more. Participants in this trial will be doctoral students recruited from accredited Clinical Psychology programs across Canada. Participants will be assigned to an intervention or wait-list control group, and the outcome measures consist of knowledge and attitudes about family violence, as well as measures of skills relevant to appropriately responding to survivors in clinical settings. Further, participants will be invited to complete a qualitative interview after the intervention to discuss overall impressions of the training and other ways the training changed their perspectives, if at all, on family violence.
Do I need to stop my current medications to join the trial?
The trial protocol does not specify whether you need to stop taking your current medications. It seems unlikely, as the trial focuses on online education for domestic violence and not on medical treatments.
What data supports the idea that Online Education for Domestic Violence is an effective treatment?
The available research does not provide specific data on the effectiveness of Online Education for Domestic Violence. Instead, it focuses on general patient education and its impact on satisfaction and healthcare outcomes. For example, one study discusses how patient and family education can support positive healthcare outcomes, while another highlights the importance of coordinated education efforts. However, these studies do not directly address the effectiveness of Online Education for Domestic Violence compared to other treatments.
12345What safety data exists for the online education treatment for domestic violence?
The provided research articles do not contain any safety data related to the online education treatment for domestic violence or its alternative names such as VEGA Family Violence Education Resources, VEGA Project, Violence, Evidence, Guidance, and Action Family Violence Education Resources. The articles focus on drug safety and pharmacovigilance, which are unrelated to the treatment in question.
678910Is the VEGA Family Violence Education Resources a promising treatment for domestic violence?
Yes, the VEGA Family Violence Education Resources is a promising treatment. It provides important education for healthcare and social service providers to better recognize and respond to family violence. This can help them identify victims and reduce the risk of harm. The VEGA project is an online platform that supports providers in learning about family violence, making it accessible and relevant, especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to improve the skills and knowledge of providers, which is crucial for helping victims of domestic violence.
1112131415Eligibility Criteria
This trial is for English-speaking clinical psychology doctoral students in Canada who are currently engaged in clinical work as part of their program. They must have internet access to participate, as the intervention involves an online educational resource.Inclusion Criteria
I am a Clinical Psychology graduate student in Canada.
I am currently involved in clinical work as part of my program.
I can speak and read English.
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Participant Groups
The study tests the VEGA Family Violence Education Resources' effectiveness on improving knowledge, self-efficacy, and responses to family violence among psychology trainees. Participants will be compared with a wait-list control group to measure changes in attitudes and skills relevant to dealing with survivors.
2Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
Group I: VEGA Family Violence Education ResourcesExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Students in this arm will receive access to the online VEGA Family Violence Education Resources and will be asked to complete modules covering information about family violence in Canada, creating safety for survivors in clinical settings, recognizing and responding to child maltreatment and intimate partner violence, three interactive learning scenarios, and voices of those with lived experiences of family violence.
Group II: No TrainingActive Control1 Intervention
Students in this arm will not receive access to the training until the end of the pre- and post-training data collection for the Arm 1 group.
VEGA Family Violence Education Resources is already approved in Canada for the following indications:
🇨🇦 Approved in Canada as VEGA Family Violence Education Resources for:
- Education for recognizing and responding to family violence, including child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, and children’s exposure to intimate partner violence
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University of Ottawa - Child Wellbeing LabOttawa, Canada
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University of OttawaLead Sponsor
References
Measuring satisfaction with patient education. A hospital-wide program evaluation. [2007]Evaluation of patient education can provide important quality improvement information. In this article, the author describes the design and implementation of a family education satisfaction survey. Five components of patient education are evaluated, and differences in satisfaction with patient education between units and between diagnosis are measured. The results are used to recognize individual and unit excellence and identify opportunities for improvement.
Preoperative Pain Management Education: An Evidence-Based Practice Project. [2019]The purpose of this evidence-based practice project was to evaluate the effectiveness of a preoperative pain management patient education intervention on improving patients' pain management outcomes.
Interdisciplinary patient and family education. [2019]The education of patients and their families can support positive patient healthcare outcomes. Patient and family education is an essential component of the healthcare delivery process, but it often is fragmented, with individual disciplines providing information without coordination. At the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ, a team reviewed the facility's process for providing patient education. As a result of this review, interdisciplinary process and documentation forms that improved both the quality of education provided and the documentation of that education in the medical record were developed.
Patient/family education program: making the project management process operational. [2019]The authors describe the development of a patient/family education program by a multidisciplinary task force that meets the needs of a culturally diverse population and that complies with current standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Methods to increase the effectiveness of clinicians as educators are addressed. The authors used the project management/continuous quality improvement format to direct program development, implementation, and outcome evaluation.
Ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients' knowledge with internet-based education. [2017]There is a growing need for patient education and an evaluation of its outcomes.
Accuracy of an automated knowledge base for identifying drug adverse reactions. [2019]Drug safety researchers seek to know the degree of certainty with which a particular drug is associated with an adverse drug reaction. There are different sources of information used in pharmacovigilance to identify, evaluate, and disseminate medical product safety evidence including spontaneous reports, published peer-reviewed literature, and product labels. Automated data processing and classification using these evidence sources can greatly reduce the manual curation currently required to develop reference sets of positive and negative controls (i.e. drugs that cause adverse drug events and those that do not) to be used in drug safety research.
Advancing pharmacovigilance through academic-legal collaboration: the case of gadolinium-based contrast agents and nephrogenic systemic fibrosis-a Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports (RADAR) report. [2022]To compare and contrast three databases, that is, The International Centre for Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis Registry (ICNSFR), the Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) and a legal data set, through pharmacovigilance and to evaluate international nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) safety efforts.
Drug Safety Data Curation and Modeling in ChEMBL: Boxed Warnings and Withdrawn Drugs. [2023]The safety of marketed drugs is an ongoing concern, with some of the more frequently prescribed medicines resulting in serious or life-threatening adverse effects in some patients. Safety-related information for approved drugs has been curated to include the assignment of toxicity class(es) based on their withdrawn status and/or black box warning information described on medicinal product labels. The ChEMBL resource contains a wide range of bioactivity data types, from early "Discovery" stage preclinical data for individual compounds through to postclinical data on marketed drugs; the inclusion of the curated drug safety data set within this framework can support a wide range of safety-related drug discovery questions. The curated drug safety data set will be made freely available through ChEMBL and updated in future database releases.
A New Paradigm for Safety Data Signal Detection and Evaluation Using Open-Source Software Created by an Interdisciplinary Working Group. [2021]Techniques to evaluate large amounts of safety data continue to evolve based on a greater understanding of how the brain processes visual information and the advancement of programing tools. The Interactive Safety Graphics Task Force of the American Statistical Association Biopharmaceutical Safety Working Group has assembled a multidisciplinary team of experts in a variety of domains to develop the next generation of open-source visual analytical tools for safety data based on these advances. The multidisciplinary approach resulted in the rapid development of the first tool, a novel interactive version of the familiar Evaluation of Drug-Induced Serious Hepatotoxicity (eDISH) graphic along with a unique clinical workflow to guide the reviewer through the data analysis. This now serves as the model for the team to expand the open-source platform into a suite of other interactive safety analysis tools.
Quality of Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions to Antimicrobials Improved Following Operational Research: A before-and-after Study in Sierra Leone (2017-2023). [2023]Background: The quality of pharmacovigilance data is important for guiding medicine safety and clinical practice. In baseline and follow-up studies after introducing interventions to improve the quality of reporting of Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs) in Sierra Leone, we compared (a) timeliness and completeness of reporting and (b) patient outcomes classified as 'recovering'. Methods: Baseline (January 2017-December 2021) and follow-up (June 2022-April 2023) studies of ICSRs in the national pharmacovigilance database. Interventions introduced following recommendations from the baseline study included: updating standard operating procedures and guidelines, setting performance targets follow-up of patient outcomes, and training. Results: There were 566 ICSRs in the baseline study and 59 in the follow-up study. Timelines (reporting < 30 days) improved by five-fold (10% at baseline to 47% in follow-up). For the completeness of variables in ICSRs (desired threshold ≥ 90%),this was 44% at baseline and increased to 80% in the follow-up study. 'Recovering' outcomes reduced from 36% (baseline study) to 3% (follow-up study, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Significant improvements in timeliness, completeness, and validation of ICSRs were observed following operational research in Sierra Leone. While enhancing pharmacovigilance and patient safety, this study highlights the important synergistic role operational research can play in improving monitoring and evaluation systems.
Researching the Impact of Service provider Education (RISE) Project - a multiphase mixed methods protocol to evaluate implementation acceptability and feasibility. [2022]Health and social service providers receive limited education on recognizing and responding to family violence. With adequate education, providers could be prepared to identify individuals subjected to family violence and help reduce the risk of associated impairment. Informed by the Active Implementation Frameworks, our research will determine the scope of strategies needed for the uptake and sustainability of educational interventions focused on family violence for providers. It will also determine the acceptability, feasibility, and proof-of-concept for a new educational intervention, called VEGA (Violence, Evidence, Guidance, Action), for developing and improving primary care provider knowledge and skills in family violence.
Child maltreatment online education for healthcare and social service providers: Implications for the COVID-19 context and beyond. [2022]Evidence indicates that healthcare and social service providers (HSSPs) receive inadequate education related to recognizing and responding to child maltreatment. This is despite the fact HSSPs are identified as an important factor in the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of this childhood exposure. The need for online education for HSSPs' is highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and will continue to be relevant afterward. The objective of this commentary is to provide an overview of: (a) educational interventions for HSSPs' related to recognizing and responding to child maltreatment; (b) the development of VEGA (Violence, Evidence, Guidance, Action), which is an online platform of educational resources to support HSSPs to recognize and respond to child maltreatment; and (c) the RISE (Researching the Impact of Service provider Education) project, which is an ongoing multi-province evaluation of VEGA in Canada. It is important to consider ongoing ways that HSSPs can receive education related to recognizing and responding to child maltreatment. The virtual implementation of VEGA and the RISE Project provide a necessary opportunity to continue to increase the capacity of Canada's HSSPs to adequately and safely recognize and respond to child maltreatment, while simultaneously advancing education scholarship for the field of child maltreatment and which will have relevance for the COVID-19 context and beyond.
Family Violence Curricula in Europe (FAVICUE): a cross-sectional descriptive study protocol. [2023]Family violence (FV) is a widespread public health problem of epidemic proportions and serious consequences. Doctors may be the first or only point of contact for victims who may be hesitant or unable to seek other sources of assistance, and they tend not to disclose abuse to doctors if not specifically asked. A comprehensive healthcare response is key to a coordinated community-wide approach to FV, but most of the practising physicians have received either no or insufficient education or training in any aspect of FV. Training of medical students concerning FV is often delivered in an inconsistent or ad hoc manner.The main aim of this project, Family Violence Curricula in Europe (FAVICUE), is to (1) describe current FV education delivery in European medical universities (undergraduate period) and during the specialist training in general practice (GP)/family medicine (FM) (postgraduate residency programme), and (2) compare it with WHO recommendations for FV curriculum.
Serious gaming: A tool to educate health care providers about domestic violence. [2020]Due to many adverse health effects, victims of domestic violence are frequently seen in the health care system. Yet, health care providers may lack the training to assist them. Online curricula can be an effective instructional tool. Our competency-based, serious video game, Responding to Domestic Violence in Clinical Settings, was designed to address health care providers' knowledge gaps through 17 modules, each a half hour in length. Nearly 9,000 participants completed at least one module; nursing students completed the most modules, approximately five hours of instruction. This serious video game-based curriculum is useful in helping health providers and students learn about Domestic Violence.
The American College of Nurse-Midwives' Domestic Violence Education Project: evaluation and results. [2019]From October 1994 through September 1998, the American College of Nurse Midwives conducted a nationwide Domestic Violence Education Project. The project aimed to encourage universal screening for domestic violence among all women being seen for care. A four-pronged set of objectives was used, including policy, basic education, continuing education, and advocacy/activism. A description of the project and the results of the project evaluation, including replicable features, are presented. Process and outcome evaluations were performed using both quantitative and qualitative data. Surveys, interviews, and site visits formed the basis for the evaluation of the policy reform, education program, and advocacy components. Pretests and posttests of training participants formed the basis of the evaluation of the continuing education component. All project objectives were met. Policy reform occurred as expected. Changes were noted in education programs in both didactic content and clinical exposure. Changes in clinical behavior as assessed by the pretests and posttests look promising, although numbers of respondents at 12 and 24 months after training are small. Participants reported an increase in advocacy and activism. The Domestic Violence Education Project seems to be a successful and somewhat replicable model for changing attitudes about a health topic (among providers) with possible implications for clinical practice.