Brief Intervention to reduce drinking and intimate partner violence in women

描述（由申请人提供）：亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）导致毁灭性的后果。越来越多的研究探讨了妇女饮酒与其实施和受害于IPV之间的联系。研究表明，实施IPV的妇女或IPV的受害者比对照组更有可能出现酒精问题。最近的研究还表明，女性在饮酒的日子里成为IPV受害者的可能性是不饮酒的日子的3-7倍。此外，在因IPV而被捕的妇女中，有一半以上的人喝危险饮料，这些妇女比不喝危险饮料的暴力妇女遭受的暴力和受害程度更高。迄今为止，尚未探索减少因IPV被捕的妇女饮酒的方法，目前尚不清楚治疗危险饮酒将在多大程度上改善随后的IPV犯罪和受害情况。我们建议进行一项随机临床试验，其中160名危险饮酒暴力妇女将被分配到：（a）一个简短的，以动机为重点的酒精干预加 标准殴打者干预（BI）或（B）单独标准殴打者干预（ST）。将在基线、3个月、6个月和12个月随访时对暴力妇女及其伴侣的酒精使用、酒精相关问题和IPV进行评估。 双方都将提供关于对方酗酒和暴力的确凿报告。将获得逮捕记录，作为暴力惯犯的进一步指标。我们假设，增加一个简短的酒精治疗标准的施虐者干预将导致较少的酒精使用和IPV犯罪和受害在所有后续评估，相对于标准的施虐者干预。如果它是有效的，这种低成本，研究支持的短暂酒精治疗可以很容易地出口到美国各地的社区暴力干预计划与公共卫生的相关性：拟议的研究将研究是否增加一个简短的酒精治疗标准的暴力干预计划的妇女将导致减少饮酒，减少伴侣暴力犯罪，并减少伴侣暴力受害。如果它是有效的，短暂的酒精治疗可以传播到全国各地的暴力方案，以改善酒精使用和暴力的结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Intimate partner violence (IPV) results in devastating consequences. There is a growing body of research examining the link between women's alcohol use and their perpetration and victimization of IPV. Research has shown that women who perpetrate IPV or are victims of IPV are more likely than control groups to have alcohol problems. Recent research also demonstrates that women are 3-7 times more likely to be victims of IPV on days in which they consume alcohol relative to days that they do not drink. Furthermore, over onehalf of the women arrested for IPV and court-referred to batterer intervention groups drink hazardously; these women experience higher levels of violence perpetration and victimization relative to violent women who do not drink hazardously. To date, methods for reducing alcohol use in women arrested for IPV have not been explored, and the extent to which treatment for hazardous alcohol use will ameliorate subsequent IPV perpetration and victimization is currently unknown. We propose to conduct a randomized clinical trial in which 160 hazardous drinking violent women will be assigned to: (a) a brief, motivationally focused alcohol intervention plus standard batterer intervention (Bl) or (b) standard batterer intervention alone (ST). Alcohol use, alcoholrelated problems, and IPV will be assessed at baseline, 3-, 6-, and 12-month follow-up in violent women and their relationship partners. Both partners will provide corroborating reports of the other's alcohol use and violence. Arrest records will be obtained as further indices of violence recidivism. We hypothesize that adding a brief alcohol treatment to standard batterer intervention will result in less alcohol use and less IPV perpetration and victimization at all follow-up assessments, relative to standard batterer intervention alone. If it is efficacious, this low cost, research supported brief alcohol treatment can be easily exported to community violence intervention programs across the United States Relevance to public health: The proposed study will examine whether adding a brief alcohol treatment to standard violence intervention programs for women will result in reduced drinking, reduced partner violence perpetration, and reduced partner violence victimization. If it is effective, the brief alcohol treatment can be disseminated to violence programs across the country to improve alcohol use and violence outcomes.