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Building Master Trainers to Facilitate Sexual Violence Prevention: A Pilot Study in Ghana

BACKGROUND: Sexual violence is a widespread human rights violation that affects women and girls throughout the world, with particularly high rates among college-age youth. In the United States, many universities have developed primary prevention education programs to comply with federal mandates; ho...

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Autores principales: Choi, Caitlin M., Munro-Kramer, Michelle L., Cannon, Lindsay M., Owusu-Antwi, Ruth, Akorsu, Angela D., Compton, Sarah D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7566503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33117655
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2747
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author Choi, Caitlin M.
Munro-Kramer, Michelle L.
Cannon, Lindsay M.
Owusu-Antwi, Ruth
Akorsu, Angela D.
Compton, Sarah D.
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description BACKGROUND: Sexual violence is a widespread human rights violation that affects women and girls throughout the world, with particularly high rates among college-age youth. In the United States, many universities have developed primary prevention education programs to comply with federal mandates; however, these programs are limited in sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this pilot study is to describe and evaluate the training of peer facilitators for a sexual violence prevention program at two universities in Ghana; the University of Cape Coast and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. METHODS: A three-day “master trainer” training was held focusing on sexual violence, sexual health, bias, healthy relationships, and facilitation skills. Participants completed pre- and post-test evaluations on knowledge, attitudes, and skills related to the topics and participants from the University of Cape Coast also participated in a focus group about bias and self-care. FINDINGS: Participants (n = 23) at both universities demonstrated significant changes in the domains of: self-care knowledge, sexual violence knowledge, rape myth acceptance, and facilitation skills. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides early evidence about training methods for primary prevention programs aimed at students on university campuses in sub-Saharan Africa. Further research is needed on peer-facilitation, training, and primary prevention programs related to sexual violence for university students in sub-Saharan Africa.
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spelling pubmed-75665032020-10-27 Building Master Trainers to Facilitate Sexual Violence Prevention: A Pilot Study in Ghana Choi, Caitlin M. Munro-Kramer, Michelle L. Cannon, Lindsay M. Owusu-Antwi, Ruth Akorsu, Angela D. Compton, Sarah D. Ann Glob Health Original Research BACKGROUND: Sexual violence is a widespread human rights violation that affects women and girls throughout the world, with particularly high rates among college-age youth. In the United States, many universities have developed primary prevention education programs to comply with federal mandates; however, these programs are limited in sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this pilot study is to describe and evaluate the training of peer facilitators for a sexual violence prevention program at two universities in Ghana; the University of Cape Coast and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. METHODS: A three-day “master trainer” training was held focusing on sexual violence, sexual health, bias, healthy relationships, and facilitation skills. Participants completed pre- and post-test evaluations on knowledge, attitudes, and skills related to the topics and participants from the University of Cape Coast also participated in a focus group about bias and self-care. FINDINGS: Participants (n = 23) at both universities demonstrated significant changes in the domains of: self-care knowledge, sexual violence knowledge, rape myth acceptance, and facilitation skills. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides early evidence about training methods for primary prevention programs aimed at students on university campuses in sub-Saharan Africa. Further research is needed on peer-facilitation, training, and primary prevention programs related to sexual violence for university students in sub-Saharan Africa. Ubiquity Press 2020-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7566503/ /pubmed/33117655 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2747 Text en Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7566503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33117655
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