The Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV-risk behaviours in Durban, South Africa: study protocol for a cluster randomized control trial, and baseline characteristics

BMC Public Health

Study Protocol

Yandisa Sikweyiya¹  Nwabisa Shai¹  Samantha Willan¹  Esnat Chirwa¹  Rachel Jewkes¹  Andrew Gibbs²  Nolwazi Ntini³  Thobani Khumalo³  Michael Strauss³  Giulia Ferrari⁴  Nompumelelo Mbatha⁵  Laura Washington⁵ 

[1] Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa;Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa;Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa;Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa;London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK;Project Empower, Durban, South Africa;

关键词: Intimate Partner Violence;    Sexual Violence;    Informal Settlement;    Physical Intimate Partner Violence;    Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12889-017-4223-x

 received in 2017-01-18, accepted in 2017-04-01,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundPreventing intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a global public health challenge. Studies suggest urban informal settlements have particularly high levels of IPV and HIV-prevalence and these settlements are rapidly growing. The current evidence base of effective approaches to preventing IPV recognizes the potential of combining economic strengthening and gender transformative interventions. However, few of these interventions have been done in urban informal settlements, and almost none have included men as direct recipients of these interventions.MethodsStepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention is a participatory gender transformative and livelihoods strengthening intervention. It is being evaluated through a cluster randomized control trial amongst young women and men (18–30) living in urban informal settlements in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa. The evaluation includes a qualitative process evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis. A comparison of baseline characteristics of participants is also included.DiscussionThis is one of the first large trials to prevent IPV and HIV-vulnerability amongst young women and men in urban informal settlements. Given the mixed methods evaluation, the results of this trial have the ability to develop a stronger understanding of what works to prevent violence against women and the processes of change in interventions.Trial registrationNCT03022370. Registered 13 January 2017, retrospectively registered.

【 授权许可】

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