A Mixed Method Study of Intimate Partner Violence Among Young Urban Tanzanian Men

坦桑尼亚城市年轻男性亲密伴侣暴力的混合方法研究

• 批准号: 8745838
• 负责人: Marta I Mulawa
• 金额: $ 5.51万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-27 至 2016-09-26
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8745838
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Address; Advanced Development; Africa; Age; Area; Attitude; Buffers; Camping; Cause of Death; Characteristics; Child; Country; Data; Data Sources; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational workshop; Effectiveness; Fellowship; Future; Gender; Goals; HIV; HIV risk; Health; Income; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Leadership; Literature; Measures; Mediation; Mentorship; Methodology; Methods; Modification; National Institute of Mental Health; Parents; Population; Preventive Intervention; Qualitative Methods; Qualitative Research; Randomized; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Priority; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Risk Behaviors; Risk Factors; Risk Reduction; Sampling; Social Environment; Tanzania; Testing; Training; Violence; Woman; Youth; base; experience; high risk; high risk sexual behavior; intimate partner violence; men; multilevel analysis; partner violence; public health relevance; research study; responsible research conduct; skills; social; systematic review; theories; therapy development; violence prevention; young man; young woman

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Tanzanian youth, between the ages of 15 and 24 years, are a critical population to target with HIV prevention interventions since an estimated 150,000 Tanzanians are newly infected with HIV each year and AIDS remains the leading cause of death among Tanzanian youth. Research with young men and women has documented a clear association between HIV risk and intimate partner violence (IPV) and effectively intervening with youth to reduce IPV requires an in-depth understanding of its determinants. The goal of the proposed research and training fellowship is for the applicant to obtain the skills and experience to become an independent mixed methods global HIV and IPV researcher. The specific training goals of this fellowship are to 1) expand the applicant's quantitative skills to conduct multilevel modeling to examine both compositional and contextual influences and cross-level effect modification; 2) increase the applicant's qualitative skills to analyze, interpret, and present results of qualitative research; and 3) build upon the applicant's training in quantitative and qualitative methods to further develop these skills with a particular focus on how to most effectively integrate the two methodologies and effectively present mixed method research findings. These goals will be accomplished through coursework, mentorship by the sponsor, Dr. Suzanne Maman, attendance of seminars and workshops, training in the responsible conduct of research, and through the execution of the proposed research project. The proposed research will be conducted within the context of the sponsor's NIMH R01, A Multilevel Intervention to Reduce HIV Risk Among Networks of Men in Tanzania (1R01MH098690-01). The parent study is evaluating an intervention with high-risk networks of young men who socialize in stable social clubs called "camps" in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The specific aims of the proposed research study are to 1) quantify the association between individual-level level risk factors (education, income, attitudes towards gender norms, attitudes towards IPV, and experience of violence as a child) and perpetration of IPV among young urban Tanzanian men; 2) assess the degree to which variance in men's perpetration of IPV can be attributed to group-level factors (collective efficacy and equitable gender norms of the camps); 3) test whether the group-level factors buffer the relationship between individual-level risk factors and perpetration of IPV; and 4) contextualize the attitudes and perpetration of IPV among young men and elaborate on the relationships and interactions found in the quantitative analysis by purposively sampling men and conducting in-depth interviews informed by the quantitative findings obtained by addressing Aims 1-3. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods in a mixed methods research plan, the proposed study will thoroughly assess and contextualize individual- and group-level predictors of IPV perpetration and will allow HIV-prevention efforts to effectively incorporate strategies to reduce perpetration of intimate partner violence among Tanzanian youth.

描述(申请人提供)：15至24岁的坦桑尼亚青年是艾滋病毒预防干预措施的关键人群，因为据估计，每年有15万坦桑尼亚人新感染艾滋病毒，艾滋病仍然是坦桑尼亚青年死亡的主要原因。对青年男女的研究证明，艾滋病毒风险与亲密伴侣暴力之间存在明确的联系，有效干预青年以减少亲密伴侣暴力需要深入了解其决定因素。拟议的研究和培训奖学金的目标是让申请者获得技能和经验，成为一名独立的混合方法全球艾滋病毒和IPV研究员。该奖学金的具体培训目标是1)扩展申请人的定量技能，以进行多层次建模，以检查成分和背景影响以及跨级别效果修改；2)提高申请人的定性技能，以分析、解释和展示定性研究的结果；以及3)在申请人的定量和定性方法培训的基础上，进一步发展这些技能，特别关注如何最有效地整合两种方法，并有效地展示混合方法研究结果。这些目标将通过课程作业、赞助者Suzanne Maman博士的指导、参加研讨会和讲习班、负责任的研究行为培训以及执行拟议的研究项目来实现。拟议的研究将在赞助商的NIMH R01的背景下进行，这是一项在坦桑尼亚男子网络中降低艾滋病毒风险的多级干预措施(1R01MH098690-01)。这项家长研究正在评估对在坦桑尼亚达累斯萨拉姆的稳定社交俱乐部中社交的年轻人的高危网络的干预。拟议研究的具体目的是：1)量化个人层面的风险因素(教育、收入、对性别规范的态度、对IPV的态度和童年时的暴力经历)与坦桑尼亚城市年轻男子实施IPV的关系；2)评估男性实施IPV的差异在多大程度上可以归因于群体层面的因素(营地的集体效能和公平的性别规范)；3)测试群体层面的因素是否缓冲了个人层面的风险因素和实施IPV之间的关系；4)将青年男子的态度和行为与环境联系起来，通过有目的地对男子进行抽样调查，并根据目标1-3所获得的定量结果进行深入访谈，详细说明在定量分析中发现的关系和相互作用。通过在混合方法研究计划中结合定量和定性方法，拟议的研究将彻底评估个人和群体层面的IPV实施预测因素，并将允许艾滋病毒预防努力有效地纳入减少亲密伴侣实施的策略 坦桑尼亚青年中的暴力事件。