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dc.contributor.authorReed, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorEmanuel, Andrea N
dc.contributor.authorMyers-Franchi, Bronwyn
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Kim
dc.contributor.authorWechsberg, Wendee M
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-01T23:59:36Z
dc.date.available2021-11-01T23:59:36Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationReed, E. and Emanuel, A.N. and Myers, B. and Johnson, K. and Wechsberg, W.M. 2013. The relevance of social contexts and social action in reducing substance use and victimization among women participating in an HIV prevention intervention in Cape Town, South Africa. Substance Abuse Rehabilitation. 4: pp. 55-64.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86266
dc.identifier.doi10.2147/SAR.S45961
dc.description.abstract

OBJECTIVES: To examine qualitatively how women's social context and community mobilization (eg, mobilizing women to take social action and engaging their community in social change) influence substance use abstinence and victimization among women participating in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) intervention in Cape Town, South Africa.

METHODS: Thirty women who had participated in a randomized controlled trial of a group-delivered intervention to address substance use, gender-based violence, and associated risk for HIV (The Women's Health CoOp) were selected to participate in semi-structured interviews about their perceived impact of the intervention on their substance use and exposure to victimization. The Women's CoOp intervention involved creating a new positive social environment for women within a group setting that also fostered women's social action (eg, educating peers or family members) in the community. Interviews were analyzed using content analysis and coded to examine women's descriptions of social contexts and social action, and the influence of these on women's substance use abstinence and exposure to victimization.

RESULTS: Social support (eg, via program staff and other participants) and social action (eg, engaging others in the community on issues relevant to substance use prevention or other health topics) promoted within the program, as well as outside social influences within women's life contexts (eg, support from non-substance using family or male partners, leaving male partners or other peer relationships characterized by drug use, or finding employment) were key factors reported by women in terms of facilitating their substance use abstinence and in reducing women's exposures to victimization.

CONCLUSION: Findings highlight the potential for group-delivered interventions that include mobilizing women to take social action in the larger community to be effective approaches for facilitating substance use abstinence, reductions in victimization, and ultimately, to address the intersection between substance use, violence, and HIV risk among women in this high HIV prevalence setting.

dc.languageeng
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
dc.subjectHIV prevention
dc.subjectsocial context
dc.subjectsubstance use
dc.subjectwomen
dc.titleThe relevance of social contexts and social action in reducing substance use and victimization among women participating in an HIV prevention intervention in Cape Town, South Africa.
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume4
dcterms.source.startPage55
dcterms.source.endPage64
dcterms.source.issn1179-8467
dcterms.source.titleSubstance Abuse Rehabilitation
dc.date.updated2021-11-01T23:59:34Z
curtin.departmentEnAble Institute
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyFaculty of Health Sciences
curtin.contributor.orcidMyers-Franchi, Bronwyn [0000-0003-0235-6716]
dcterms.source.eissn1179-8467
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridMyers-Franchi, Bronwyn [7202684194]


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