Design, implementation, and evaluation of a PRECEDE-PROCEED model-based intervention to reduce Intimate Partner Violence against women in Afghan men living in Refugee Camp of Torbat Jam County (Iran): Protocol for an Embedded study

Abstract

Objective More than a third of women around the world have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). IPV is an important public health issue and a human rights issue. IPV has more severe consequences in refugees. More than 2.5 million Afghan refugees and immigrants live in Iran. The PRECEDE-PROCEED model is one of the most practical health promotion modes in interventions. The purpose of this study is to investigate the IPV situation in Afghan refugees living in Torbat Jam camp and its relationship with their health and quality of life and to design an intervention program to reduce it based on the PRECEDE-PROCEED health promotion model. Method This study employs an embedded mixed-method study with quantitative, qualitative and intervention phases study that was designed at the Afghan refugee population living in Iran's Torbat Jam camp. Quality of life data will be collected with the SF-12 questionnaire, mental health status information with the DASS-21 questionnaire, and IPV status information with the Haj Yahya violence against women questionnaire. In the qualitative phase, information will be collected in the form of in-depth interviews with the participants. By carrying out the qualitative phase, the factors affecting IPV will be determined and the necessary interventions to reduce and prevent it will be carried out based on the PRECEDE-PROCEED model of health promotion. Results Demographic variables and descriptive tables will be presented, the relationship of IPV with demographic variables, health status and quality of life will be measured. Predictors of IPV should be identified. Conclusions The results of this intervention will show the relationship between health status and quality of life with IPV, which can be used to design interventions.