Preventing and reducing violence against women: innovation in community-level studies

BMC Medicine

Rhonda Small¹  Angela Taft¹ 

[1] Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

关键词: Intervention;    Prevention;    Community randomized controlled trial;    Intimate partner violence;   

Others  :  1121421
DOI  :  10.1186/s12916-014-0155-9

 received in 2014-08-19, accepted in 2014-08-19,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Intimate partner violence is a serious global problem that damages the health and prosperity of individuals, their families, community, and society. WHO endorses an ‘ecological model,’ which states that there are multi-level intersecting factors enabling perpetration and victimization of violence. Intervention science to prevent or reduce the problem is in its infancy, and the few existing intervention studies have been targeted at the individual level. In a recent study published in BMC Medicine, Abramsky et al. bring innovation to the field, targeting their intervention trial “SASA!” in Kampala Uganda at all ecological levels, but particularly at the community level. Recruiting and training both male and female community leaders and activists who enabled group and media discussions, the authors focused on the beneficial and abusive detrimental uses of power rather than commencing with the central issue of gender inequality. SASA! successfully reduced community attitudes to tolerance of violence and inequality, men’s sexual risk behaviors, and women’s experience of physical violence. The study also improved the communities’ response to victimized women. SASA! has promise for adaptation and replication in low, middle and high income countries.

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【 授权许可】

   
2014 Taft and Small; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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