The HERrespect intervention to address violence against female garment workers in Bangladesh: study protocol for a quasi-experimental trial
| Autor: | Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Mahfuz Al Mamun, Jessica Wan, Samantha Willan, Rachel Jewkes, Andrew Gibbs, Kausar Parvin, Marat Yu |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Program evaluation medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Poison control Female garment worker Quasi-experimental trial Clothing Cohort Studies Young Adult Study Protocol 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Intervention (counseling) Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Occupational Health Bangladesh Workplace violence business.industry lcsh:Public aspects of medicine 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle management lcsh:RA1-1270 Intimate partner violence 050903 gender studies Family medicine Cohort Domestic violence Female 0509 other social sciences business Program Evaluation Women Working Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | BMC Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2018) BMC Public Health |
| ISSN: | 1471-2458 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12889-018-5442-5 |
| Popis: | Background Women in Bangladesh experience high rates of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). IPV is more prevalent against income earning women compared to their non-earning counterparts, and Workplace Violence (WPV) is also common. Such violence is a violation of women’s rights, and also constrains them from contributing to their personal growth, household, community and the economy at large. There is limited evidence on what works to prevent IPV and WPV amongst garment workers. This paper describes an evaluation of HERrespect, an intervention which aims to reduce IPV and WPV against female garment workers in and around Dhaka, Bangladesh. Methods The trial employs a quasi-experimental design, with four intervention and four control factories. In the intervention factories a randomly selected cohort of married female line workers, a cohort of male line workers, and all middle management staff received the intervention. The intervention strategies involved (1) gender transformative group-based training for workers and management staff; (2) joint session between workers (15 female and male) and middle-management staff; (3) factory-wide activities; (4) awareness raising among top management; (5) factory policy review and development and 6) a community based campaign. For the evaluation, a cohort of randomly selected female workers and a cohort of selected management staff have been established. All workers (n = 800) and management staff (n = 395) from these cohorts were interviewed at baseline using two different questionnaires, and will be interviewed in the endline, 24 months post-baseline. Intention to treat analysis will be used for assessing the impact of HERrespect, comparing the intervention and control factories. Discussion To our knowledge this is the first study that seeks to evaluate the impact on IPV and WPV, of group sessions with female workers, male workers, and management; factory-wide campaigns and a community intervention among female garment workers in Bangladesh. Apart from informing programmers and policy makers about intervention effectiveness in reducing IPV and WPV against female garment workers this study will also present evidence on an intervention tailored to the situation in the garment sector, which makes HERrespect scalable. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03304015, retrospectively registered on October 06, 2017. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-018-5442-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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