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“ANZANSI Program Taught Me Many Things in Life”: Families’ Experiences with a Combination Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Girls’ Unaccompanied Migration for Labor
Approximately 160 million children work as child laborers globally, 39% of whom are female. Ghana is one of the countries with the highest rates of child labor. Child labor has serious health, mental health, and educational consequences, and those who migrate independently for child labor are even a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603225/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293748 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013168 |
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author | Sensoy Bahar, Ozge Boateng, Alice Nartey, Portia B. Ibrahim, Abdallah Kumbelim, Kingsley Nabunya, Proscovia Ssewamala, Fred M. McKay, Mary M. |
author_facet | Sensoy Bahar, Ozge Boateng, Alice Nartey, Portia B. Ibrahim, Abdallah Kumbelim, Kingsley Nabunya, Proscovia Ssewamala, Fred M. McKay, Mary M. |
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description | Approximately 160 million children work as child laborers globally, 39% of whom are female. Ghana is one of the countries with the highest rates of child labor. Child labor has serious health, mental health, and educational consequences, and those who migrate independently for child labor are even at higher risk. Yet, evidence-based efforts to prevent unaccompanied child migration are limited. In this study, we examined the acceptability of a family-level intervention, called ANZANSI (resilience in local language) combining two evidence-based interventions, a family economic empowerment intervention and a multiple family group family strengthening intervention, to reduce the risk factors associated with the independent migration of adolescent girls from the Northern region to big cities in Ghana. We conducted semi-structured interviews separately with 20 adolescent girls and their caregivers who participated in ANZANSI. Interviews were conducted in the local language and transcribed and translated verbatim. Informed by the theoretical framework of acceptability, the data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The results showed high intervention acceptability among both adolescent girls and their caregivers, including low burden, positive affective attitude, high perceived effectiveness, low opportunity costs, and high self-efficacy. The study findings underline the high need for such interventions in low-resource contexts in Ghana and provide the foundation for testing this intervention in a larger randomized trial. |
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spelling | pubmed-96032252022-10-27 “ANZANSI Program Taught Me Many Things in Life”: Families’ Experiences with a Combination Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Girls’ Unaccompanied Migration for Labor Sensoy Bahar, Ozge Boateng, Alice Nartey, Portia B. Ibrahim, Abdallah Kumbelim, Kingsley Nabunya, Proscovia Ssewamala, Fred M. McKay, Mary M. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Approximately 160 million children work as child laborers globally, 39% of whom are female. Ghana is one of the countries with the highest rates of child labor. Child labor has serious health, mental health, and educational consequences, and those who migrate independently for child labor are even at higher risk. Yet, evidence-based efforts to prevent unaccompanied child migration are limited. In this study, we examined the acceptability of a family-level intervention, called ANZANSI (resilience in local language) combining two evidence-based interventions, a family economic empowerment intervention and a multiple family group family strengthening intervention, to reduce the risk factors associated with the independent migration of adolescent girls from the Northern region to big cities in Ghana. We conducted semi-structured interviews separately with 20 adolescent girls and their caregivers who participated in ANZANSI. Interviews were conducted in the local language and transcribed and translated verbatim. Informed by the theoretical framework of acceptability, the data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The results showed high intervention acceptability among both adolescent girls and their caregivers, including low burden, positive affective attitude, high perceived effectiveness, low opportunity costs, and high self-efficacy. The study findings underline the high need for such interventions in low-resource contexts in Ghana and provide the foundation for testing this intervention in a larger randomized trial. MDPI 2022-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9603225/ /pubmed/36293748 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013168 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Sensoy Bahar, Ozge Boateng, Alice Nartey, Portia B. Ibrahim, Abdallah Kumbelim, Kingsley Nabunya, Proscovia Ssewamala, Fred M. McKay, Mary M. “ANZANSI Program Taught Me Many Things in Life”: Families’ Experiences with a Combination Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Girls’ Unaccompanied Migration for Labor |
title | “ANZANSI Program Taught Me Many Things in Life”: Families’ Experiences with a Combination Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Girls’ Unaccompanied Migration for Labor |
title_full | “ANZANSI Program Taught Me Many Things in Life”: Families’ Experiences with a Combination Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Girls’ Unaccompanied Migration for Labor |
title_fullStr | “ANZANSI Program Taught Me Many Things in Life”: Families’ Experiences with a Combination Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Girls’ Unaccompanied Migration for Labor |
title_full_unstemmed | “ANZANSI Program Taught Me Many Things in Life”: Families’ Experiences with a Combination Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Girls’ Unaccompanied Migration for Labor |
title_short | “ANZANSI Program Taught Me Many Things in Life”: Families’ Experiences with a Combination Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Girls’ Unaccompanied Migration for Labor |
title_sort | “anzansi program taught me many things in life”: families’ experiences with a combination intervention to prevent adolescent girls’ unaccompanied migration for labor |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603225/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293748 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013168 |
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