Preventing intimate partner violence among foreign-born Latinx mothers through relationship education during nurse home visiting

Qing Li; Fernando Riosmena; Patricia A Valverde; Shuo Zhou; Claudia Amura; Kerry A Peterson; Vincent J Palusci; Lynette Feder

doi:10.1111/jonm.13565

Preventing intimate partner violence among foreign-born Latinx mothers through relationship education during nurse home visiting

J Nurs Manag. 2022 Sep;30(6):1639-1647. doi: 10.1111/jonm.13565. Epub 2022 Mar 7.

Authors

Qing Li¹, Fernando Riosmena², Patricia A Valverde³, Shuo Zhou⁴, Claudia Amura⁵, Kerry A Peterson⁵, Vincent J Palusci⁶, Lynette Feder⁷

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.
² Population Program and Geography Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
³ Latino Research and Policy Center, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁴ Department of Community and Behavioral Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁵ College of Nursing, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
⁶ Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, New York, USA.
⁷ Department of Criminal Justice, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Abstract

Aims: This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of an augmented home visiting programme in preventing intimate partner violence among Latinx mothers by nativity.

Background: Intimate partner violence diminishes home visit programmes' effectiveness. Immigrant Latinx mothers are especially vulnerable and need culturally tailored prevention.

Methods: We performed secondary analyses of 33 US-born and 86 foreign-born Latinx mothers at baseline and 1- and 2-year follow-up in a longitudinal randomized controlled trial of the Nurse-Family Partnership programme augmented with nurse-delivered Within My Reach relationship education curriculum and violence screening and referrals in Oregon. We estimated proportional odds models via generalized estimating equations on total physical and sexual victimization and/or perpetration forms (an ordinal variable), adjusting for intervention, wave, age and education.

Results: The intervention-nativity interaction was not significant (p = .953). Foreign-born status was associated with lower reported violence at baseline (adjusted odds ratio: 0.29, 95% confidence interval: 0.13-0.67, p = .004). This association was marginally significant at 1-year follow-up (0.43, 0.17-1.08, p = .072) and not significant at 2-year follow-up (0.75, 0.33-1.67, p = .475).

Conclusions: This augmented programme was not effective for Latinx mothers by nativity. Their nativity gap diminished over time.

Implications for nursing management: Nursing leaders should support culturally tailored home visiting programmes to detect and prevent intimate partner violence affecting Latinx immigrants.

Clinical trial registration: This study is registered at www.

Clinicaltrials: gov NCT01811719. The full trial protocol can be accessed at https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01811719.

Keywords: immigrant Latinx health; intimate partner violence; maternal and child health nursing; nurse-delivered home visitation; randomized controlled trial; relationship education programmes.

Publication types

Randomized Controlled Trial

MeSH terms

Crime Victims*
Female
House Calls
Humans
Intimate Partner Violence* / prevention & control
Mothers
Violence

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ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT01811719

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