Interventions on Women Under Intimate Partner Violence: An Integrative Review

Abstract

The present study is aimed to determine the interventions on women under intimate partner violence. This integrative review was performed by searching in international (Web of science, PubMed, Scopus Science direct, and EMBASE) and national (SID and magiran) databases were searched from inception to December 31, 2018. The keywords used included “interventions” OR “IPV” OR “intimate partner violence”. The search of studies, data extraction and screening conducted by two researcher. Of 2782 studies 30 studies included in final stage. These studies were mainly investigated the effect of the intervention type on domestic violence against women. Of these, 17 studies focused on victims of domestic violence, of which 7 focused on supporting and empowering victims of violence, and 7 were interventional studies, and the remaining 3 studies were online and computer-based interventions. Another category of interventions focused on training and empowerment of health professionals and providers (7 studies), and two studies focused on both groups of DV victims and care providers. In addition to the DV victims and care providers, 4 studies included community factors in interventions. It also seems that carrying out comprehensive and adequate interventions on women under domestic violence is needed