Improving the Response to Intimate Partner Violence IPV in Military Settings

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Improving the Response to Intimate Partner
Violence (IPV) in Military Settings

• JAI/DAP/2004-1/101/WY
• Activities Timetable

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Brief Description (1)

• Title Improving the Response to Intimate
  Partner Violence (IPV) in Military Settings
• Projects No JAI/DAP/2004-1/101/WY
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• Duration 12 Months 22/4/2005 21/3/2005
• Coordinator GREECE - Athens
• Center for Research and Prevention of Injuries
  (CE.RE.PR.I.)
• Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical
  School, National and Kapodistrian University of
  Athens
• Eleni Petridou (Project Leader)
• Kiki Petroulaki (Project Manager)

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Brief Description (2)

• Partners
•  FINLAND Helsinki
• Antero Heloma Etela-Suomen Laaninhallitus (State
  Provincial
• Office of Southern Finland)
•  ITALY Milano
• Eva Negri Instituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche
  Mario Negri
•  GREECE Athens
• Orestis GiotacosDept. of Psychiatry, Army
  Hospital of Athens
•  FRANCE Marseille
• Constantin Skarvelis Association GERAM
•  GERMANY - Berlin
• Elfriede Steffan SPI Forschung gGmbH (Social
  Pedagogical Institute)
•  NORWAY Drobak
• Yousif Rahim Karolinska Institutet

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Brief Description (3)

• Main Beneficiaries
• Women (female population victims of IPV)
•   Young People
• Target group
• General male population (army recruits)
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• Objectives
• To develop an educational program aimed at
  sensitising young army recruits on IPV.
• To study the feasibility of implementing this
  program in selected military settings.
• To pilot study the educational program in
  military settings
• To evaluate program's effectiveness.
• To develop a network of IPV experts in
  participating countries

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Brief Description (4)

• Planned Activities (a)
• Research and adaptation of the results from
  previous programs on IPV topics supplementary
  literature review. Relevant materials will be
  selected for being taken into consideration when
  editing the educational materials.
• "Development of a screening tool for the
  identification of IPV" (IPP program)
• "Developing best professional practice for
  reducing sexual abuse and trafficking in
  militarised areas of peace-time Europe"
  (98/043/WC),
• "SILENCE Parallel Violence in the Armed Forces"
  (98/112/C)
• "Development and pilot testing of a module
  concerning the role of health care providers in
  assessment and intervention of Intimate Partner
  Violence" (03/120/Y)

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Brief Description (5)

• Planned Activities (b)
• Managerial Meeting (22 August, 2005). In this
  meeting partners will have to discuss, evaluate
  and decide about
• a. the educational material that is going to be
  developed
• b. details about the organizations of the
  educational program
• c. the evaluation procedures
• Establishment and/or expansion of a Network of
  IPV experts in each participating country.
• a. Relevant organizations involved in different
  IPV domains will be contacted by every
  partner in his/her country in order
•  i. to inform them about the project
•  ii.to ask their contribution for the benefit of
  the project (e.g. ask them to evaluate the
  educational material that will be developed)

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Brief Description (6)

• Planned Activities (c)
• 4. Creation of the educational materials.
• The material located in Step 1 will be evaluated
  by all partners if applicable, it will be used
  (after appropriate adaptation, if needed). If
  not, new educational material will be developed.
• 5. Feasibility study. Each participant will
  contact key persons working in the army
  structures in his/her country to explore the
  possibility of pilot testing the program.
• 6. Organize and Pilot test of the educational
  program, where feasible, in selected military
  settings.

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Brief Description (7)

• Planned Activities (d)
• 7. Evaluation of the project.
• a. Development of evaluation questionnaires. This
  task will be mostly held by the coordinator
  (partners would have a consultative role in this
  task).
• b. Conduct the evaluation.
• i. Each partner will forward the
  selected/adapted/developed material along with a
  questionnaire to as many IPV experts as possible
  in his/her country in order to evaluate it in
  terms of quality and appropriateness.
• ii. Each partner will also fill in the same
  evaluation questionnaire
• iii. Each partner that will implement the pilot
  testing of the educational program in her/his
  country will undertake the task of evaluation
  (through the developed questionnaires).

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Brief Description (8)

• Planned Activities (e)
• 8.Final report. Final report will be elaborated
  by CEREPRI but the partners will contribute to it
  via their reports that will be delivered to the
  coordinator at least once every three months
• 9.Dissemination of the results. Each partner will
  disseminate the project

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Activities

• Literature Review Army Situation Description
• Develop a website for the project Edit and post
  a chapter on the site
• Establish/maintain/expand a local/country IPV
  Network
• Development of Educational Material
• Evaluation of the content of the Educational
  Material
• Elaborating the educational material
• Organize the implementation of the program for
  soldiers
• Feasibility Study
• Design the Effectiveness Evaluation
• Pilot testing the IPV educational program/collect
  data
• Effectiveness Evaluation Analysis
• Dissemination
• Managerial Meeting
• Edit Final Report Edit a summary of the Final
  Report

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Literature Review Army Situation Description

• Description regarding the army situation in each
  country (conscription, alternative ways of
  service, professional service, duration, etc.)
• Literature Review regarding
• The IPV situation in each Partners country (e.g.
  data from National Reports, gray data, etc)
• Special conditions related to military settings
  with IPV issues (if any).
• Sensitization/educational material that has been
  developed and/or used in the context of other
  projects targeting male population (primary but
  not exclusively in military settings)

Who sends What to Whom and When
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Literature Review Army Situation Description

• Who sends What to Whom and When

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Website

• Develop a website for the project
• Edit and post a chapter on the site regarding
  literature review and the army situation in each
  country

Who sends What to Whom and When
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Develop a website for the project Edit and post
a chapter on the site

• Who sends What to Whom and When

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Establish/maintain/expand a local/country IPV
Network

• List all existing IPV related organizations and
  IPV experts (with contact details for each one)
  in each Partner country (not exclusively in
  military settings)
• List all existing military settings (with contact
  details for each one) in each Partner country
• Contact them in order to inform them about the
  project
• Involve them at the evaluation phase (ask them to
  evaluate the educational material based on a
  questionnaire)
• Disseminate the developed leaflet and the results
  of the project through the IPV network.
• Supplement the list of IPV experts and
  Organizations during the entire life of the
  project.

Who sends What to Whom and When
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Establish/maintain/expand a local/country IPV
Network
Who sends What to Whom and When

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Development of Educational Material

• If appropriate material found during literature
  review it will be adapted and supplemented (where
  needed) according to the special needs in each
  country
• OR
• If appropriate material couldnt be found during
  literature review, the appropriate educational
  material will be developed

Who sends What to Whom and When
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Development of Educational Material

• Who sends What to Whom and When

Much earlier if we find appropriate material
and decide not to develop our own material
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Evaluation of the Content of the Educational
Material

• Develop questionnaire for the evaluation of the
  material
• Fill in the evaluation questionnaire by
• Partners
• IPV experts as many as possible- in each country
• Military personnel maybe
• Code and analyze evaluation data

Who sends What to Whom and When
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Evaluation of the content of the Educational
Material

• Who sends What to Whom and When

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Elaborating the Educational Material

• Modify the material according to the evaluation
  results
• Comment/advise upon the modifications
• Translate the material (into each Partners
  language)
• Update the site with the material

Who sends What to Whom and When
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Elaborating the educational material

• Who sends What to Whom and When

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Organize the implementation of the program for
soldiers

• Decide for each partner country about
• the content, the duration, the trainers
• the number of soldiers intended to be trained
• the Military settings each partner will approach
  
• way the evaluation will be conducted
• ACRONYM for the whole project

Questionnaires and other indices that could
be used to evaluate the effectiveness e.g.
number of soldiers/officers enrolled the course,
etc.
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Organize the implementation of the program for
soldiers

• Who sends What to Whom and When

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Feasibility Study

• Develop a questionnaire for collecting data
  regarding the feasibility study that will be
  conducted by each Partner in her/his country
• Conduct the feasibility study in each country
• Contact key-persons in military settings
• Inform them about the project
• Gain permission for the implementation of the
  program
• Fill in the Feasibility Questionnaire
• Code and analyze data from the Feasibility study
• Write a report regarding the feasibility study
  update the site

Who sends What to Whom and When
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Feasibility Study

• Who sends What to Whom and When

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Design the Effectiveness Evaluation

• Develop evaluation questionnaires to be filled in
  by
• the soldiers before and after their training
• the trainers after the training
• Comment/advise regarding the questionnaires
• Translate the questionnaires into partners
  languages

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Design the Effectiveness Evaluation

• Who sends What to Whom and When

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Pilot Testing the IPV Educational Program
Collect Evaluation data

• Organize the implementation
• Select the trainers and train them (if needed)
• Set the timetable for the courses in the military
  settings
• Copy the material that will be distributed to
  soldiers
• Copy the evaluation questionnaires
• Implement the training and collect evaluation
  data
• Train the soldiers
• Collect evaluation data (questionnaires filled in
  by each soldier)

Who sends What to Whom and When
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Pilot testing the IPV educational
program/collect data

• Who sends What to Whom and When

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Effectiveness Evaluation Analysis

• Develop the code for the coding of the data
• Code the data from the evaluation (EXCEL or SPSS
  file)
• Analyse the evaluation data
• Write a report from the evaluation update the
  site
• Modify educational material according to the
  evaluation results
• Provide comments/advice/etc regarding evaluation
  and modification

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Effectiveness Evaluation Analysis

• Who sends What to Whom and When

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Dissemination

• Develop one ore more Dissemination
  questionnaire(s) to be filled in at three
  different dates (before, during, after
  implementation)
• Before implementation
• Contact all the IPV related organizations to
  inform them about the project
• Contact Military settings to inform about the
  project
• Fill in the Dissemination questionnaire
• During implementation
• Distribute material to soldiers attending the
  training
• Fill in the Dissemination questionnaire
• After implementation
• Develop a leaflet
• Translate the leaflet
• Disseminate the leaflet by post and otherwise
• Fill in the Dissemination questionnaire

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Dissemination

• Who sends What to Whom and When

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Managerial Meeting
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Edit Final Report a Summary of the Final Report

• Edit Final Report
• Comment/advise/supplement final report
• Edit a summary of the Final Report
• Translation of the summary

Who sends What to Whom and When
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Edit Final Report Edit a summary of the Final
Report

• Who sends What to Whom and When

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