Background: There has been a substantial increase in strategies to prevent or end Violence against women (VAM) recent years. However, there are still many differences among current evidence, including efficacy, geographical, population, and violence forms, and there is lack of unified resource to provide an overview of currently available evidence. More study is needed to assess the state of the available evidence of programmatic interventions on VAM.
Objective: This study will generate an interactive evidence and gap map (EGM) of the total review evidence on interventions reducing VAM outcomes, and report a systematic review of the quantity, quality, and effect of different interventions.
Method: We will draw the intervention-outcomes framework based on the RESPECT women framework developed by WHO. We will conduct a comprehensive literature search using databases relevant to medical, health, social care and social policy, web-based search engines, websites of specialist organizations, bibliographies of relevant reviews, and targeted calls for evidence using professional networks or public calls for submission of articles. Two reviewers will independently screen the title and abstract of all records and extract data. The quality of the included systematic reviews will be assessed using the AMSTAR-2 tool. For primary studies, we will use RoB 2.0 for randomized clinical trials and using ROBINS-I for non-randomized studies. Each entry in the map will either be a systematic review or primary studies. The final EGMs will provide tabulations or graphs of the number of systematic reviews and primary studies, with accompanying narrative description.
Results and conclusion: This study is ongoing, and results will be presented at Colloquium as available.