title: Qualitative study of an operations research project to engage abused women, health providers, and communities in responding to gender-based violence in Vietnam.
abstract: This article describes an action research project designed to engage women, health providers, and communities to respond to gender-based violence (GBV) in Vietnam. Based on results from in-depth interviews and group discussions, it considers the extent to which the project approaches were empowering for abused women. The results underscore the problems entailed in introducing systematic screening for gender-based violence into government health facilities in the low-resource setting of Vietnam, the importance of combining ideational change and rights components with support for abused women, and the difficulty of engaging male perpetrators.
authors.affiliation: FHI360, Global Health, Population and Nutrition Group, 1825 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009-5721, USA. sschuler@fhi360.org
authors.forename: Sidney Ruth
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Schuler
authors.forename: Quach Thu
authors.initials: QT
authors.lastname: Trang
authors.forename: Vu Song
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Ha
authors.forename: Hoang Tu
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Anh
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D018585:Battered Women; D057237:Criminals; D005260:Female; D006076:Government; D006126:Group Processes; D006268:Health Facilities; D006282:Health Personnel; D006296:Health Services; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D011203:Poverty; D011209:Power, Psychological; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D012944:Social Support; D012947:Social Work; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014744:Vietnam; D014933:Women's Rights