A community-based qualitative study to explore the experience and understandings of intimate partner violence among female sex workers and their intimate partners in Karnataka, India

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dc.contributor.authorBlanchard, Andrea Katryn
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeLorway, Rob (Community Health Sciences) Mignone, Javier (Community Health Sciences) Deane, Lawrence (Social Work)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorBruce, Sharon (Community Health Sciences)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-06T16:52:46Z
dc.date.available2015-04-06T16:52:46Z
dc.date.issued2015-04-06
dc.degree.disciplineCommunity Health Sciencesen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science (M.Sc.)en_US
dc.description.abstractA qualitative exploratory study informed by a community-based research model was conducted, involving the non-governmental organization Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, and community-based organization Chaitanya Mahila Sangha led by women in sex work, in India at each stage of the study. In-depth interviews were conducted by community research investigators among a purposive sample of 21 female sex workers and male intimate partners in Bagalkot district, Karnataka, India to explore how they describe their experience and understandings of intimate partner violence (IPV). The results show the social significance of intimate relationships as well as the interplay of multi-leveled issues underlying the vulnerability to intimate partner violence among sex-workers. The findings support the need for structural interventions working not only on the individual and relationship levels to address relevant triggers of violence, but also the community and societal levels, with the integral involvement of community partners, to more effectively address vulnerability to IPV.en_US
dc.description.noteMay 2015en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/30341
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectcommunity-based researchen_US
dc.subjectintimate partner violenceen_US
dc.subjectqualitativeen_US
dc.subjectsex worken_US
dc.titleA community-based qualitative study to explore the experience and understandings of intimate partner violence among female sex workers and their intimate partners in Karnataka, Indiaen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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