This study investigates the effect of a video which teaches 15 safety behaviours for women subject to intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy. Half of the women screening positive for IPV during pregnancy will view the intervention video. The other half will view a control video.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) poses a risk for the health of the woman during pregnancy also for the health of the unborn child. Pregnancy is time when nearly all women have regular contact with the healthcare system. Pregnancy is also a time during which women consider their situation and are open for change.

Healthcare staff have the opportunity to ask pregnant women if they experience IPV and need to know how to respond to women experiencing IPV. Healthcare staff can refer to other services. If staff are uncertain if referral is needed or wanted they can teach women how to increase their own safety and prepare for leaving through a number of safety promoting behaviours.The safety behaviours were originally developed in the USA to counsel women who attended a family violence unit and qualified for a protection order.

Women do not always disclose the true nature of their IPV to staff. However, they could still benefit from learning about safety promoting behaviours. Using a video for teaching allows for the use of pictures and sound and options for several languages.

Inclusion Criteria:

• pregnant women attending antenatal care at the community health center,
• 18 years or older,
• understanding sufficient Norwegian, Urdu, Somali or English to complete the questionnaire and understand the video.

Exclusion Criteria:

• women who do not speak or understand the languages provided in the study (English, Urdu, Somali and Norwegian)
• women who have never been in an adult intimate relationship
• women who are closely attended by male partner
• women who do not have the mental of physical capacity to answer the questionnaire.
• women who cannot fill out the questionnaire in privacy

Only women are pregnant so only women can be recruited to this study

All women will be shown a video (also women not screening positive for IPV). Unless staff ask women about the content of the video or the women discloses this, care providers will not know which film participants have viewed. As we include a group of women who screened negative for IPV in the assessment three months after birth care providers will not know who who screened positive and who screened negative. In the file the variable for control og intervention video will be blinded. Women will be selected for the post-partum questionnaire based on the screening for abuse. All abused women and for each abused woman two without abuse will be selected.