PROSPERO
International prospective register of systematic reviews
Community-based psychosocial interventions targeting gender norms, mental health or
alcohol problems for the prevention of interpersonal violence
Yuko Otake, Roderik Viergever, Julie Evans, Kozue Amemiya, Katsura Danno, Mayumi Sugihara, Naho
Tsuchiya, Sachiko Miyake, Sharon Henry, Karen Devries
Citation
Yuko Otake, Roderik Viergever, Julie Evans, Kozue Amemiya, Katsura Danno, Mayumi Sugihara,
Naho Tsuchiya, Sachiko Miyake, Sharon Henry, Karen Devries. Community-based psychosocial
interventions targeting gender norms, mental health or alcohol problems for the prevention of
interpersonal violence. PROSPERO 2013 CRD42013005052 Available from:
http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?ID=CRD42013005052
Review question
1. Do community-based psychosocial interventions targeting gender norms, mental health or alcohol
problems have impacts on prevention or reduction of interpersonal violence?
2. What combination of programme contents targeting gender norms, mental health or alcohol problems
have more impact on prevention or reduction of interpersonal violence?
Searches
The search will be conducted in PubMed, Embase, Global Health, PsycINFO, and CINAHL without setting
any restriction in language status or date of publication. Literature will be searched by using the subject
heading search in addition to the title and abstract search for gender-based violence, gender norms, mental
health and alcohol problems. In order to detect randomized controlled trials, filters provided by Cochrane
collaboration (SIGN) and BMJ will be applied in Medline and Embase, while the subject heading, title and
abstract search will be used in Global Health, PsycINFO, and CINAHL.
Search strategy
http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPEROFILES/5052_STRATEGY_20130728.pdf
Types of study to be included
Randomized controlled trial (RCT)
Condition or domain being studied
Interpersonal violence is one of the major humanitarian issues which has significant impacts on people’s
health and well-being. Epidemiological research has demonstrated that violence is a major cause of adverse
health condition including death and disability due to injuries, increased risks of infection of HIV and other
sexual transmitted diseases, poor mental health and behavioural problems throughout the life of a victim
(Krug et al., 2002) .
It is well known that interpersonal violence between men and women is significantly influenced by gender
norms in a society, such as people’s attitudes towards gender difference and social expectations to male
and female people as a member of the society (Heise, 2011). Perpetration as well as victimization of
interpersonal violence is also likely to be related to psychosocial conditions including traumatic stress
(Trevillion et al., 2012), depression (Devries et al., 2013), social support (Tol et al., 2013) and alcohol
drinking (Jewkes et al., 2002). Whilst interpersonal violence against both men and women can cause mental
health adversities to victims, psychosocial factors such as traumatic stress, depression and alcohol drinking
can also increase risks of further violence victimization or perpetration and social support can function as a
protective factor. Considering the fact that psychosocial conditions are significantly related to perpetration
and acceptance of interpersonal violence, it is of great importance that effects of psychosocial intervention
targeting both of those factors are investigated.
Community-based psychosocial interventions to prevent violence have been undertaken in low- and middleincome
settings as well as wealthy countries (e.g. Kim et al., 2007, Wolf et al., 2003), however, communitybased
psychosocial interventions addressing mental health and alcohol problems in addition to interpersonal
violence are still few in this field, and there is a scarcity of information on the effectiveness of interventions
which have multi-components targeting those conditions.
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