Engendering healthy masculinities to prevent sexual violence: Rationale for and design of the Manhood 2.0 trial.

ABSTRACT: Violence against women and girls is an important global health concern. Numerous health organizations highlight engaging men and boys in preventing violence against women as a potentially impactful public health prevention strategy. Adapted from an international setting for use in the US, "Manhood 2.0" is a "gender transformative" program that involves challenging harmful gender and sexuality norms that foster violence against women while promoting bystander intervention (i.e., giving boys skills to interrupt abusive behaviors they witness among peers) to reduce the perpetration of sexual violence (SV) and adolescent relationship abuse (ARA). Manhood 2.0 is being rigorously evaluated in a community-based cluster-randomized trial in 21 lower resource Pittsburgh neighborhoods with 866 adoles

SUBMITTER: Abebe KZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6643273 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature