Qualitative Study of an Operations Research Project to Engage Abused Women, Health Providers, and Communities in Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Vietnam

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 1421-1441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Ruth Schuler ◽  
Quach Thu Trang ◽  
Vu Song Ha ◽  
Hoang Tu Anh
Keyword(s):  
Abused Women ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Systematic Screening ◽  
Women Health ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Low Resource Setting ◽  
Gender Based

This article describes an action research project designed to engage women, health providers, and communities to respond to gender-based violence (GBV) in Vietnam. Based on results from in-depth interviews and group discussions, it considers the extent to which the project approaches were empowering for abused women. The results underscore the problems entailed in introducing systematic screening for gender-based violence into government health facilities in the low-resource setting of Vietnam, the importance of combining ideational change and rights components with support for abused women, and the difficulty of engaging male perpetrators.

Shape Your Life and Embrace Your Aggression: A Boxing Project for Female and Trans Survivors of Violence

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy van Ingen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Female Aggression ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Innovative Project ◽  
Project Participants ◽  
Gender Based

This article focuses on an action research project called Shape Your Life, developed to teach women and transgendered survivors of violence recreational boxing at the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club, Canada’s only women-led boxing club. In this innovative project, participants were encouraged to explore “healthy aggression” as a means of initiating change in their lives. As most research on aggression in sport focuses on young men, the aggression of girls, women, and trans (transgendered and transsexual) individuals remains a much under-studied topic. This article attempts to open up further dialogue on gender, sport, and aggression by providing an account of survivors’ aggression as an important source of empowerment, thereby moving beyond the narrow focus on female aggression as harm inducing and a cause for moral panic. The article also highlights the need for practical approaches to physical activity and sport programming that address the needs of participants whose lives are affected by gender-based violence.

Introductory Note

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto F. Caldas
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
American System ◽  
Internal Armed Conflict ◽  
First Case ◽  
Introductory Note ◽  
Conservation Of Natural Resources ◽  
Gender Based

During 2015, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued sixteen judgments in contentious cases and two interpretations of previous judgments that covered a wide variety of salient issues for the Inter-American System of Human Rights. The first case selected for this edition of the Yearbook deals with the obligations of states dealing with terrorist threats in the midst of internal armed conflict. The other three cases selected deal with the obligations of states in peacetime: specifically, the obligation to supervise private health providers, particularly when they carry out public functions, the obligation to protect the lives and integrity of women against gender-based violence, and the obligation to guarantee the collective property rights of indigenous peoples while also ensuring the conservation of natural resources. These cases are consistent with the Inter-American Court’s vast jurisprudence regarding states’ duty to guarantee the rights of persons who are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses.

scholarly journals Calibration of the Epilepsy Questionnaire for Use in a Low-Resource Setting

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Joseph O. Yaria ◽  
Adesola Ogunniyi
Keyword(s):  
Health Sector ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Good Test ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Low Resource Setting ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

Background. Burden of epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa is huge in the midst of shortage of human resource in its health sector. Using skilled staff to supervise and support lower level healthcare workers providing frontline primary healthcare is a pragmatic coping solution. But, lower level health providers face enormous challenges due to absent clinical algorithms or pragmatic rapid diagnostic tests. Objective. This study aimed to determine if the use of an epilepsy questionnaire in a traditional clinical setting would improve semiological details obtained and diagnostic accuracy. Methods. A prospective study was conducted involving patients diagnosed with epilepsy each with an eye witness who had regularly witnessed the seizures. Routine seizure history from clinical documentation and an interviewer-based questionnaire were compared. The data obtained were assessed for content, accuracy, intermethod and test-retest reliability. Results. Sixty-seven patients with a median age of 24 years were recruited. Routine seizure history had obtained less semiological details with inadequate description of nonmotor manifestations and lateralizing motor details. The questionnaire-obtained history showed higher accuracy for generalized onset seizure (0.83 vs. 0.56) and focal onset seizures (0.79 vs. 0.59). The questionnaire-obtained history also had good test-retest reliability for various semiological domains except automatisms. Conclusions. Routine seizure histories are not standardized. The use of a questionnaire goes a long way in improving semiology description in a low-resource setting and guides the health provider on what details to focus on. The use of epilepsy questionnaires should, therefore, be considered to improve semiology, especially in nonspecialist settings.

scholarly journals People living In poverty with companion pets: barriers to access and support

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joey Violante
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Services And Supports

The purpose of this major research project was to make critical the experiences of people living in poverty and/or violent living situations with animal companions. I met with three participants; using qualitative semi-structured interviews, and a narrative approach. Participants highlighted issues of poverty, homelessness, gender-based violence and bounded choice in accessing services and supports. Using an intersectional feminist, post structural, and anti-oppressive analysis I explored the ideological and material barriers that impact women living in poverty with companion animals. This paper finishes with participants’ recommendations for change and implications for social work.

Risk Analysis and Countermeasures of Gender-Based Violence in Botswana

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-64
Author(s):  
Oitshupile Khumo Maswabi
Keyword(s):  
Married Couples ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Abusive Relationships ◽  
Cycle Of Violence ◽  
Abused Women ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Women's Shelter ◽  
Gender Based

One of the most prevalent human rights violations in the world is Gender-based violence. It knows no economic, national or social boundaries. Over 67% of women in Botswana have experienced abuse, which is more than double the global average. This research on gender-based violence in Botswana focuses on the cycle of violence within abusive relationships, why victims stay in abusive relationships, and what can be done to make them leave abusive relationships, how much they know about the effects of gender-based violence, as well as the coping mechanisms of gender-based violence. Gender-based violence occurs in many ways, and it seems to be more prevalent among married couples especially where the wife is not working, and the husband is the only breadwinner in the household. This research had been carried out in Botswana. A face-to-face interview had been conducted in Botswana randomly to see if people of Botswana are aware of this disturbing phenomenon. A visit to Kagisano Women’s shelter had been undertaken, to get first-hand information because it is where abused women are given shelter. The results of the research will assist in identifying support and resources that can be put in place to combat gender-based violence in Botswana.

scholarly journals A Community-Supported Clinic-Based Program for Prevention of Violence against Pregnant Women in Rural Kenya

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet M. Turan ◽  
Abigail M. Hatcher ◽  
Merab Odero ◽  
Maricianah Onono ◽  
Jannes Kodero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Antenatal Clinic ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Resource Setting ◽  
Rural Kenya ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Objective. Pregnant women are especially vulnerable to adverse outcomes related to HIV infection and gender-based violence (GBV). We aimed at developing a program for prevention and mitigation of the effects of GBV among pregnant women at an antenatal clinic in rural Kenya.Methods. Based on formative research with pregnant women, male partners, and service providers, we developed a GBV program including comprehensive clinic training, risk assessments in the clinic, referrals supported by community volunteers, and community mobilization. To evaluate the program, we analyzed data from risk assessment forms and conducted focus groups (n=2groups) and in-depth interviews (n=25) with healthcare workers and community members.Results. A total of 134 pregnant women were assessed during a 5-month period: 49 (37%) reported violence and of those 53% accepted referrals to local support resources. Qualitative findings suggested that the program was acceptable and feasible, as it aided pregnant women in accessing GBV services and raised awareness of GBV. Community collaboration was crucial in this low-resource setting.Conclusion. Integrating GBV programs into rural antenatal clinics has potential to contribute to both primary and secondary GBV prevention. Following further evaluation, this model may be deemed applicable for rural communities in Kenya and elsewhere in East Africa.

Engaging the Challenges of Alleviating Wife Abuse in Northern Vietnam

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Lynn Kwiatkowski
Keyword(s):  
Wife Abuse ◽  
Abused Women ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Community Members ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Gender Based

In recent years, gender-based violence has become highly visible and recognized by the Vietnamese state and the public more broadly. This article addresses the space that has recently widened, with the Vietnamese state's 1986 đôi mó'i or renovation policies, for local innovation and global influence on approaches to curtailing wife abuse and assisting women abused by their husbands. Anthropology can help us to understand some of the constraints and contradictions that can arise in such a space of innovation. For instance, ethnographic research reveals how local Vietnamese non-governmental organizations (VNGOs), state institutions, and international organizations in Vietnam can cooperate to develop and implement new and potentially beneficial programs for abused women. Yet, at the same time, frontline practitioners struggle to implement these new approaches, with cultural lenses that limit acceptance of new ideologies, few resources that provide long-term support to abused women, or, in some cases, little exposure to the new ideas. Anthropological research can assist in identifying the cultural and structural constraints experienced by individuals working with abused women and community members, and the contradictions that can arise between the shaping and the implementing of policy addressing wife abuse, particularly globally influenced ideologies and practices introduced into a society.

scholarly journals People living In poverty with companion pets: barriers to access and support

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joey Violante
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Services And Supports

The purpose of this major research project was to make critical the experiences of people living in poverty and/or violent living situations with animal companions. I met with three participants; using qualitative semi-structured interviews, and a narrative approach. Participants highlighted issues of poverty, homelessness, gender-based violence and bounded choice in accessing services and supports. Using an intersectional feminist, post structural, and anti-oppressive analysis I explored the ideological and material barriers that impact women living in poverty with companion animals. This paper finishes with participants’ recommendations for change and implications for social work.

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