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Sexual and Reproductive Health: How Can Situational Judgment Tests Help Assess the Norm and Identify Target Groups? A Field Study in Sierra Leone

Sexual and reproductive health is a challenge worldwide, and much progress is needed to reach the relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals. This paper presents cross-sectional data collected in Sierra Leone on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), family planning (FP), child, early and forced ma...

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Autores principales: Moussaoui, Lisa Selma, Law, Erin, Claxton, Nancy, Itämäki, Sofia, Siogope, Ahmada, Virtanen, Hannele, Desrichard, Olivier
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9119186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35602707
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.866551
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author Moussaoui, Lisa Selma
Law, Erin
Claxton, Nancy
Itämäki, Sofia
Siogope, Ahmada
Virtanen, Hannele
Desrichard, Olivier
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description Sexual and reproductive health is a challenge worldwide, and much progress is needed to reach the relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals. This paper presents cross-sectional data collected in Sierra Leone on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), family planning (FP), child, early and forced marriage (CEFM), and female genital mutilation (FGM) using an innovative method of measurement: situational judgment tests (SJTs), as a subset of questions within a larger survey tool. For the SJTs, respondents saw hypothetical scenarios on these themes and had to indicate how they would react. The objective is to give an impression of beliefs and norms on specific behaviors, which provide insights for social and behavior change interventions. Data was collected by enumerators traveling to villages randomly selected in six districts of the country. The sample is composed of 566 respondents. Results show that FGM in particular seem to be a priority topic, in comparison to the other topics for which the norms seem to be stronger against those practices. Age differences emerged and suggest priority groups to be targeted (e.g., on the topic of female genital mutilation, younger female respondents, and older male respondents gave the lowest coded responses which reflected to less appropriate behavior in our coding). In terms of validity of the measurement methods, situational judgment test answers correlated positively with other items in the survey, but the magnitude of the association is often small, and sometimes not significant. Thus, more studies are needed to further explore the validity of this measure by comparing against a reference value. Using SJTs could complement other data collection tools to perform community assessment, and orient the direction of the program in its planning phase.
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spelling pubmed-91191862022-05-20 Sexual and Reproductive Health: How Can Situational Judgment Tests Help Assess the Norm and Identify Target Groups? A Field Study in Sierra Leone Moussaoui, Lisa Selma Law, Erin Claxton, Nancy Itämäki, Sofia Siogope, Ahmada Virtanen, Hannele Desrichard, Olivier Front Psychol Psychology Sexual and reproductive health is a challenge worldwide, and much progress is needed to reach the relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals. This paper presents cross-sectional data collected in Sierra Leone on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), family planning (FP), child, early and forced marriage (CEFM), and female genital mutilation (FGM) using an innovative method of measurement: situational judgment tests (SJTs), as a subset of questions within a larger survey tool. For the SJTs, respondents saw hypothetical scenarios on these themes and had to indicate how they would react. The objective is to give an impression of beliefs and norms on specific behaviors, which provide insights for social and behavior change interventions. Data was collected by enumerators traveling to villages randomly selected in six districts of the country. The sample is composed of 566 respondents. Results show that FGM in particular seem to be a priority topic, in comparison to the other topics for which the norms seem to be stronger against those practices. Age differences emerged and suggest priority groups to be targeted (e.g., on the topic of female genital mutilation, younger female respondents, and older male respondents gave the lowest coded responses which reflected to less appropriate behavior in our coding). In terms of validity of the measurement methods, situational judgment test answers correlated positively with other items in the survey, but the magnitude of the association is often small, and sometimes not significant. Thus, more studies are needed to further explore the validity of this measure by comparing against a reference value. Using SJTs could complement other data collection tools to perform community assessment, and orient the direction of the program in its planning phase. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9119186/ /pubmed/35602707 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.866551 Text en Copyright © 2022 Moussaoui, Law, Claxton, Itämäki, Siogope, Virtanen, Desrichard and Consortium Sierra Leone Red Cross Society. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Itämäki, Sofia
Siogope, Ahmada
Virtanen, Hannele
Desrichard, Olivier
Sexual and Reproductive Health: How Can Situational Judgment Tests Help Assess the Norm and Identify Target Groups? A Field Study in Sierra Leone
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title_fullStr Sexual and Reproductive Health: How Can Situational Judgment Tests Help Assess the Norm and Identify Target Groups? A Field Study in Sierra Leone
title_full_unstemmed Sexual and Reproductive Health: How Can Situational Judgment Tests Help Assess the Norm and Identify Target Groups? A Field Study in Sierra Leone
title_short Sexual and Reproductive Health: How Can Situational Judgment Tests Help Assess the Norm and Identify Target Groups? A Field Study in Sierra Leone
title_sort sexual and reproductive health: how can situational judgment tests help assess the norm and identify target groups? a field study in sierra leone
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9119186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35602707
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.866551
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