Realist evaluation of the NT Health DFSV Initiative

Background

This project is a commissioned concurrent realist evaluation of the NT Health DFSV Initiative. This Initiative includes the development and implementation of a new clinical guideline for culturally safe health service responses to domestic, family and sexual violence in the Northern Territory.

Aim

The evaluation aims to find out how, when and for whom the new guideline and its implementation is working (and not working).

Methods

Concurrent realist evaluation; mixed methods.

Significance

This evaluation aims to inform the refinement, sustainability and scalability of the NT Health DFSV Initiative, and DFSV responses more broadly.

Funding Body

NT Health

Project start date

July 2023

Expected completion date

September 2026