An integrated intervention to reduce intimate partner violence and psychological distress with refugees in low-resource settings: study protocol for the Nguvu cluster randomized trial

Table 1 Overview of Measures

Construct	Measure	# items	Assessments
Screening & Primary outcomes			Screening (T0; Week 0)	Baseline (T1; Week 0)	Post-Intervention (T2; Week 9)	3-Month Follow-up (T3; Week 20)
Psychological Distress	Hopkins Symptom Checklist 25–Anxiety subscale	10	X		X	X
	Hopkins Symptom Checklist 25 – Depression subscale	15	X		X	X
	Harvard Trauma Questionnaire – Part 4	16	X		X	X
Intimate Partner Violence	Abuse Assessment Screen	5	X
Intimate Partner Violence	Demographic and Health Survey Domestic Violence Module	21		X	X	X
Secondary outcomes
Functional impairment	Items developed in South Kivu and adapted in Nyarugusu during pilot study	12		X	X	X
Mediators and moderators
Socio-demographics	Locally developed (Screening)	6	X
Socio-demographics	Locally developed (Baseline)	16		X
Suicide Risk Assessment	Based on WHO mhGAP procedures	3	X		X	X
Serious Mental Illness	Based on WHO trial procedures	5	X
Trauma and major life events	Harvard Trauma Questionnaire – Part 1; Items developed in South Kivu	25		X	X	X
Coping and service use	Items developed in South Kivu	13		X	X	X
Structural social capital	Items developed in South Kivu	17		X	X	X
IPV safety planning	Safety-Promoting Behavior Checklist	13		X	X	X

ISSN: 1471-244X