An intervention to increase safety behav iors of abused women: results of a randomized clinical trial. Nurs Res 2002;51(6):34754

Background: Although intimate partner violence is recognized as a major threat to women’s health, few interventions have been developed or tested. Objective: To test an intervention administered to abused women in order to increase safety-seeking behaviors. Method: A two-group clinical trial randomized 75 abused women to receive six telephone intervention sessions on safety behaviors. A control group of 75 women received standard care. Women in both groups were re-interviewed at 3 months and 6 months post-initial measurement. Results: Using repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA), we found significantly [F (2,146) 5.11, p .007] more adopted safety behaviors reported by women in the intervention group than by women in the control group at both the 3-month [F (91,74) 19.70, p .001] and 6