Is psychological therapy helpful for women who experience intimate partner violence?

Most trials were conducted in English‐speaking, high‐income countries (eg, US, Australia, UK), which limits applicability to low and middle‐income settings and for non‐English speakers. Participants’ ethnic backgrounds were diverse across the trials. However, the nature of IPV, social and healthcare responses to IPV, as well as the ability to deliver psychological therapies and the receptivity to those therapies differ across countries and limit the generalisability of these findings.

The quality of the evidence for primary outcomes was moderate for depression and low for self‐efficacy. For secondary outcomes, the quality of evidence was mainly low due to risks of bias, inconsistency and imprecision.