Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Help Seeking of American Indian and Black Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence

COVID-19 大流行对遭受亲密伴侣暴力的美国印第安人和黑人妇女寻求帮助的影响

• 批准号: 10744489
• 负责人: Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu
• 金额: $ 55.64万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-19 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10744489
• 关键词: Impact; COVID; 19; Pandemic; Help

ABSTRACT Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a complex and pervasive public health problem disproportionately affecting American Indian (AI) and Black women, who ordinarily do not seek help, but who experience the worst health outcomes including homicide. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, help-seeking for AI and Black women has become even more complicated amidst a global concern among advocates that social distancing, quarantine, and isolation measures are inadvertently endangering women experiencing IPV. To our knowledge, while anecdotal evidence shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated women’s experiences of violence with a possible rise in levels of violence resulting in lethal outcomes, no systematic studies exist that track women’s experiences of IPV during this pandemic. To address this urgent gap, we propose a community-based participatory research (CBPR) study informed by Indigenous and Black feminist thought, that will employ qualitative and quantitative methods, enabling us to systematically describe the unique and intersecting structural, economic, and interpersonal facilitators and barriers to help-seeking for IPV among AI and Black women in urban and rural areas of Wisconsin during theCOVID-19 pandemic. We will conduct surveys and individual and focus group interviews with 300 AI and Black women every year for three years to track women’s experiences, patterns of help-seeking, and barriers to help-seeking. Women will be recruited from community- based partner agencies across the state as well as at other sites where our partners ordinarily inform women about their services, in order to capture women seeking help as well as women who have not sought help. Our ultimate goal through this study is to create a platform where women’s voices can then inform health practice and health policy while also drawing from a community advisory board constituted of advocates and other key members of AI and Black communities in Wisconsin, to provide actionable recommendations for addressing the urgent problem of IPV in the lives of AI and Black women. Our proposed CBPR study is in line with the mission and goals of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities because it focuses on two populations that are disproportionately affected by the pandemic, while also ordinarily disproportionately impacted by IPV. Additionally, this CBPR study engages grassroots, community-based agencies with an academic partner (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) in scholarship that is grounded in women’s realities, is participatory in nature, and is built upon the capacities and the resilience of community members.

抽象的 亲密伴侣暴力 (IPV) 是一个复杂而普遍的公共卫生问题，对健康产生了不成比例的影响 美洲印第安人 (AI) 和黑人女性通常不寻求帮助，但健康状况最差 结果包括杀人。随着新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 疫情的持续蔓延，人工智能和黑人女性寻求帮助的情况已经发生 在全球倡导者关注社会疏远、隔离、 隔离措施无意中危及了感染 IPV 的女性。据我们所知，同时 轶事证据表明，新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 大流行使女性遭受暴力的经历变得更加复杂 暴力程度可能上升，导致致命后果，但目前尚无系统研究追踪妇女的情况 IPV在这次大流行期间的经验。为了解决这一紧迫的差距，我们提出了一个基于社区的方案 以土著和黑人女权主义思想为基础的参与性研究（CBPR）研究，将采用 定性和定量方法，使我们能够系统地描述独特且交叉的 人工智能和黑人寻求 IPV 帮助的结构、经济和人际促进因素和障碍 COVID-19 大流行期间威斯康星州城乡地区的妇女。我们将进行调查并 三年内每年对 300 名人工智能和黑人女性进行个人和焦点小组访谈，以追踪女性的 经验、寻求帮助的模式以及寻求帮助的障碍。将从社区招募女性—— 遍布全州的合作伙伴机构以及我们的合作伙伴通常向妇女提供信息的其他地点 关于他们的服务，以吸引寻求帮助的妇女以及未寻求帮助的妇女。我们的 这项研究的最终目标是创建一个平台，让女性的声音可以为健康实践提供信息 和卫生政策，同时还借鉴由倡导者和其他关键人员组成的社区咨询委员会的意见 威斯康星州的人工智能和黑人社区成员，为解决这一问题提供可行的建议 IPV 在人工智能和黑人女性生活中的紧迫问题。我们提出的 CBPR 研究符合我们的使命 和国家少数民族健康和健康差异研究所的目标，因为它重点关注两个 受这一流行病影响不成比例的人群，同时通常也不成比例地 受IPV影响。此外，这项 CBPR 研究还让基层社区机构参与其中 学术合作伙伴（威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校）在基于女性现实的奖学金方面，是 本质上是参与性的，并且建立在社区成员的能力和复原力之上。