Qualitative study of an operations research project to engage abused women, health providers, and communities in responding to gender-based violence in Vietnam
Schuler, S.R.; Trang, Q.T.; Ha, V.S.; Anh, H.T.
Violence Against Women 17(11): 1421-1441
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 1552-8448 PMID: 22240404 DOI: 10.1177/1077801211433990Document Number: 552501
This article describes an action research project designed to engage women, health providers, and communities to respond to gender-based violence (GBV) in Vietnam. Based on results from in-depth interviews and group discussions, it considers the extent to which the project approaches were empowering for abused women. The results underscore the problems entailed in introducing systematic screening for gender-based violence into government health facilities in the low-resource setting of Vietnam, the importance of combining ideational change and rights components with support for abused women, and the difficulty of engaging male perpetrators.