The impact of SASA!, a community mobilisation intervention, on women's experiences of intimate partner violence: Secondary findings from a cluster randomised trial in Kampala, Uganda

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 818-825

  Abramsky, Tanya ^a   Devries, Karen M ^a   Michau, Lori ^b   Nakuti, Janet ^b   Musuya, Tina ^c   Kyegombe, Nambusi ^a   Watts, Charlotte ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b RAISING VOICES   (Uganda)

^c Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; HUMAN RIGHTS; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOBILIZATION; PARTNER VIOLENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCALE UP; SECONDARY PREVENTION; UGANDA; COMMUNITY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

KAMPALA; UGANDA;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE ABUSE; UGANDA;

EID: 84959106122     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2015-206665     Document Type: Article

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