| Typical item | Response categories | Number of items | Women’s cronbach alpha | Men’s cronbach alpha | Method of scaling | Hypothesised direction |
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Primary outcomes | Â | ||||||
Physical IPV at 24Â months | In the last 12Â months how many times did you push or shove your current or previous girlfriend or wife? | Never, once, few many | 5 | Â | Â | Binary - never compared to once or more | Decrease |
Sexual IPV at 24Â months | In the last 12Â months, how many times have you ever forced your current or previous girlfriend or wife to do something sexual that she did not want to do? | Never, once, few many | 3 | Â | Â | Binary - never compared to once or more | Decrease |
Severe IPV at 24Â months | As above | Never, once, few many | 8 | Â | Â | Binary: never or once, compared to more than once | Decrease |
Controlling Behaviours at 24Â months | I want to know where my partner is all of the time. | Four point Likert: Strongly disagree, disagree, agree, strongly agree | 8 | 0.75 | 0.68 | Mean | Decrease |
Earnings in the past month at 24Â months | Considering all the money you earned from jobs or selling things, how much did you earn in the last 4Â weeks (not including grants)? | Number | 1 | Â | Â | Mean | Increase |
Secondary outcomes | Â | ||||||
Gender attitudes at 24 months | I think that a woman needs her husband’s permission to do paid work | Four point Likert: Strongly disagree, disagree, agree, strongly agree | 20 | 0.86 | 0.86 | Mean | Decrease |
Depressive symptomology (CESD) at 24Â months | During the past week I thought my life had been a failure | Rarely or none of the time; some or a little of the time; moderate amount of time; most or all of the time | 20 | 0.88 | 0.87 | Mean | Decrease |
Suicidal Ideation at 24Â months | In the past four weeks, has the thought of ending your life been in your mind? | Binary: Yes/No | 1 | Â | Â | Binary | Decrease |
Life circumstances at 24Â months | The conditions of my life are excellent | Five point Likert: Strongly disagree, disagree, neither disagree or agree, agree, strongly agree | 4 | 0.67 | 0.68 | Mean | Increase |
Problem alcohol use – AUDIT at 24 months | How often in the past year have you had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking? | Variety | 10 | 0.81 | 0.79 | Binary: score of 7/8 cut | Decrease |
Quarrelling about alcohol at 24Â months | In the past 12Â months have you quarreled with any of your female sexual partners about your drinking? | Binary: Yes/No | 1 | Â | Â | Binary | Decrease |
Last sexual partner at 24Â months | The last time you had sex was it with a main partner, another partner (khwapeni) or one off partner or ex-partner? | Main partner, casual partner, once-off, ex-partner | 1 | Â | Â | Binary - main partner versus others | Increase |
Transactional sex at 24Â months | In the past 12Â months, please think about any woman you had sex with just once or any casual partner or khwapheni. Do you think any of them may have become involved with you because they expected you to give or you gave cash or money to be looked after? | Binary: Yes/No | 5 | Â | Â | Binary: never, compared to once ore more | Decrease |
Work shame at 24 months | I am ashamed to see my girlfriend because I don’t have money | Four point Likert: Strongly disagree, disagree, agree, strongly agree | 4 | 0.60 | 0.57 | Mean | Decrease |
Work stress at 24Â months | I am frequently stressed or depressed because of not having enough work | Four point Likert: Strongly disagree, disagree, agree, strongly agree | 4 | 0.75 | 0.78 | Mean | Decrease |
Stealing because of hunger at 24Â months | How often in the past 4Â weeks have you taken something that was not yours because you did not have enough food or money? | Never, once, two or three times, more often | 1 | Â | Â | Binary: never stolen versus once or more | Decrease |
Mobilisation of cash in emergency at 24Â months | If you had an emergency at home and needed R200, how easy would you say it would be to find the money? | Very difficult, somewhat difficult, fairly easy, easy | 1 | Â | Â | Binary - very difficult and somewhat difficult compared to others | Increase |