Early-Stage Program Evaluation of the Abbreviated Roots of Safety Program: A Brief Intervention for Immigrant/Refugee Survivors of Intimate Partner Abuse
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The application of mainstream intimate partner abuse (IPA) services developed for locally born residents to immigrants and refugee survivors does not take their unique needs, risk factors, and protective factors into consideration and has been documented to cause harm. Given the high rate of immigration to Canada and that IPA is one of the most impactful social determinants of immigrant and refugee health, it is imperative to develop and validate culturally safe and effective programs for Canadian immigrant and refugee survivors. This project’s purpose was to provide an early-stage evaluation of the acceptability, feasibility, and potential effectiveness of a newly developed intervention called the abbreviated Roots of Safety (a-RoS) program using quantitative methods. a-RoS is a two session, culturally safe, survivor-centered, safety-focused, strengths-based, and solution-oriented IPA program for immigrant and refugee women survivors of IPA. Information was analyzed from 22 consecutively admitted survivors who participated in the program and 65 staff who were trained to deliver the program. The results indicated that the program was feasible to implement and very acceptable to staff and survivors. Additionally, there was a large statistically significant increase in immigrant/refugee survivors’ understanding of their internal tools (knowing how they wanted to increase safety and having the tools to achieve their goals). There were also increases across 10 domains in the survivors’ perceived risk and protective factor for IPA. The a-RoS program can be considered a promising practice in need of larger-scale and more rigorous evaluation and research.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.011 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".