Table 1

R.E.S.P.T strategy descriptions, questions and Cronbach’s alpha

Strategy	Description	Question	Alpha
Relationship skills strengthened	This refers to strategies to improve skills in interpersonal communication, conflict management and shared decision-making	Who usually makes decisions about healthcare for yourself?	0.61
		Who usually makes decisions about making major household purchases?
		Who usually makes decisions about visits to your family or relatives?
		Who usually makes decisions about what food should be cooked each day?
Empowerment of women	This refers to economic and social empowerment strategies including those that build skills in self-efficacy, assertiveness, negotiation and self-confidence	Do you own this or any other house either alone or jointly with someone else?	0.85
Empowerment of women		Do you own any land either alone or jointly with someone else?	0.85
Services ensured	This refers to a range of services including health, police, legal and social services for survivors of violence	Many different factors can prevent women from getting medical advice or treatment for themselves. When you are sick and want to get medical advice or treatment, is each of the following a big problem or not: Getting permission to go to the doctor? Getting money needed for advice or treatment? The distance to the health facility? Not wanting to go alone?	0.59
Poverty reduced	This refers to strategies targeted to women or the household, whose primary aim is to alleviate poverty	Wealth quintiles
Transformed attitudes and beliefs	This refers to strategies that challenge harmful gender attitudes, beliefs, norms and stereotypes	In your opinion, is a husband justified in hitting or beating his wife in the following situations: If she goes out without telling him? If she neglects the children? If she argues with him? If she refuses to have sex with him? If she burns the food?	0.7
Total score			0.47