Interventions in sexual and reproductive health services addressing violence against women in low-income and middle-income countries: a mixed-methods systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To synthesise evidence on the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and barriers to responding to violence against women (VAW) in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in low/middle-income countries (LMICs).

Design

Mixed-methods systematic review.

Data sources

Medline, Embase, Psycinfo, Cochrane, Cinahl, IMEMR, Web of Science, Popline, Lilacs, WHO RHL, ClinicalTrials.gov, Google, Google Scholar, websites of key organisations through December 2019.

Eligibility criteria

Studies of any design that evaluated VAW interventions in SRH services in LMICs.

Data extraction and synthesis

Concurrent narrative quantitative and thematic qualitative syntheses, integration through line of argument and mapping onto a logic model. Two reviewers extracted da

SUBMITTER: Lewis NV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8867339 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature