Department of Medical Science & Public Health, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK.
Fam Process. 2022 Jun;61(2):549-570. doi: 10.1111/famp.12768. Epub 2022 Mar 30.
This paper is presenting results from an observational study which has measured the impact of an equine-assisted education (EAE) intervention on the future occurrence of domestic violence within the family over 1 year following completion of the intervention as part of the troubled families program. The data analyzed were collected by the local authority troubled family's team from the different agencies involved including crime, health, and social care data. The data were analyzed and compared across four groups, those families on the troubled families program who had a key worker with a member or members who had attended and completed the equine-assisted intervention (n = 268); those families who were on the troubled families program but no support had been offered (n = 10,569), those families who were on the program and were being supported by a key worker only (n = 2119), and those families on the program who were being supported by a key worker and had received further support, not from the equine-assisted intervention (N = 1119). Significant reductions in domestic violence and child in need status were found for those families who had a member or members attend and complete the equine-assisted intervention under study. Those families referred to the equine-assisted intervention also had significantly more complex needs than those in the other groups. Referrals to this intervention are normally for those families for whom talk-based interventions such as parenting, or education-based interventions are not working.
本文呈现了一项观察性研究的结果，该研究旨在衡量马术辅助教育（EAE）干预对家庭中家庭暴力未来发生的影响，为期 1 年，干预完成后作为问题家庭计划的一部分。分析的数据是由地方当局问题家庭团队从包括犯罪、健康和社会护理数据在内的不同机构收集的。对四个组别的数据进行了分析和比较，这些组别有：参与了马术辅助干预并完成了干预的问题家庭计划中的有成员或成员参加了干预的家庭（n=268）；没有提供支持的问题家庭计划中的家庭（n=10569）；仅由一名关键工作人员支持的问题家庭计划中的家庭（n=2119）；以及由关键工作人员支持并接受了进一步支持（但不是马术辅助干预）的问题家庭计划中的家庭（n=1119）。研究发现，对于那些有成员参加并完成了所研究的马术辅助干预的家庭，家庭暴力和需要照顾的儿童状况显著减少。那些被转介到马术辅助干预的家庭的需求比其他组的家庭更复杂。这种干预的转介通常是针对那些基于谈话的干预（如育儿或教育干预）不起作用的家庭。
