The VIPROM-project (“Victim protection in medicine: Exploiting practical knowledge of medical staff to enhance the multi-professional contact with victims of domestic violence”) has ambitious goals of developing and implementing training modules (medical curricula) specifically tailored to the needs of medical and healthcare professionals in five countries to provide appropriate and responsive support to victims of domestic violence (DV). This deliverable covers the results of the evaluation of pilot trainings held for medical professionals as well as medical students in all partner countries. The goal of the evaluation was to measure training success – i.e. participants’ feedback and their sustainable growth of competencies, in terms of knowledge as well as skills. In order to do so a multi-method approach was developed (see Deliverable 5.1 for the evaluation strategy) that included participants’ and trainers’ perspectives and made use of observation as a third methodical approach. This report presents the findings from the evaluation, which shows the VIPROM-trainings to be highly effective for all stakeholder-groups over all dimensions (participant satisfaction, learning effects in terms of knowledge and skills, sustainability). The evaluation pins down possible reasons for this success, i.e. evaluators try to show evidence for the impact of the specific didactic approach developed in the programme. It concludes with a summary of findings and recommendations for the further development of the VIPROM-curricula.
Mayer et al. (Mon,) studied this question.