Examining diffusion to understand the how of SASA!, a violence against women and HIV prevention intervention in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A growing number of complex public health interventions combine mass media with community-based "change agents" and/or mobilisation efforts acting at multiple levels. While impact evaluations are important, there is a paucity of research into the more nuanced roles intervention and social network factors may play in achieving intervention outcomes, making it difficult to understand how different aspects of the intervention worked (or did not). This study applied aspects of diffusion of innovations theory to explore how SASA!, a community mobilisation approach for preventing HIV and violence against women, diffused within intervention communities and the factors that influenced the uptake of new ideas and behaviours around intimate partner relationships and violence.

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SUBMITTER: Starmann E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5948738 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature