THEME: "Novel Advancements in Nursing Care and Research"
University of Pittsburgh, United States
Title: Associate Professor
Dr.Rose E.
Constantino, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN, FACFE, is Associate Professor at the University
of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Department of Health and Community Systems. She
teaches Forensic Nursing. She is the senior editor of Forensic Nursing:
Evidence-based Principles and Practice published by F. A. Davis in 2013. Her
pro bono family law practice is founded on her research on the consequences of
Intimate Partner Violence on the health, safety and well-being of women, men
and children worldwide. Her current research is in comparing the effectiveness
of Online and Face-to-Face intervention in women and children in intimate
partner violence. She is mentoring students in developing the HELPP Zone app as
a training tool for bystanders worldwide in recognizing, responding and
preventing relationship violence including domestic and sexual violence.
My research is
focused on comparing the effectiveness of online with face-to-face HELPP
intervention in women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) which gave
us the impetus to integrate evidence-based studies into the book. HELPP means
Health, Education on Safety, and Legal Participant Preferred intervention.
HELPP intervention came about after completing a RO1on nursing care of widows
whose spouses committed suicide funded by NIH division of nursing. A
serendipitous finding in the RO1 was that 63% of the suicide victims were
reported as being abusive to their surviving partners immediately prior to
their suicide. Because the consequences of IPV are multi-faceted, we are
comparing multi-faceted interventions such as comparing the feasibility of
online, face-to-face and control HELPP on depression, social support, and other
measures using mixed methods methodology with women who have experienced IPV.
As a lawyer in Family Law, I see lawyers come too late in helping the survivor
of violence because there are now children, parents, in-laws, and workplaces
involved in the abusive relationship. For primary prevention to be effective,
we need to reach young people before experiencing TDV and provide them with
knowledge, social networking, and social support accessible from a product that
they use daily (cell phone) during their waking hours in making safe choices
and practice safety-seeking behaviors. I am currently working with two
undergraduate students in a research project using text messaging as a strategy
in building healthy dating relationships and preventing intimate partner
violence among college students. Further, I am working with 2 graduate students
in developing a HELPP Zone App to prevent IPV. With Robinson’s Diffusion of
Disruptive Innovations (DDI) as the framework for both projects, we attempt to
diffuse an intervention using an intentionally and deliberately developed
product or service, designed as a simple product that enters the transformative
research arena as a common activity- text messaging and the App. It OFFERS an
inexpensive and convenient service that has the potential to be diffused as a
disruptive tool in preventing or stopping intimate partner violence. Our
research projects enhanced the evidence-based portions of the book while this
book provided robust nursing research questions for future research topics and
proposals. I am very interested in collaborating with other mHealth working
group members to prevent if not stop violence worldwide through mobile
interventions.