Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Προαγωγή και Αγωγή της ΥγείαςLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Author:
Τσιριγώτη Αντωνία
Supervisors info:
Θεμελή Όλγα, Γιοβαζιολιάς Θεόδωρος, Τούντας Ιωάννης
Original Title:
Χτίζοντας υγιείς σχέσεις ανάμεσα στα δύο φύλα: αξιολόγηση παρέμβασης πρωτογενούς πρόληψης της συντροφικής βίας σε μαθητές/ριες δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης
Translated title:
Building healhy relationships between the sexes: evaluation of a secondary school primary prevention intervention of intimate partner violence
Summary:
The purpose of this study was to evaluate an adolescents’ awareness raising
intervention in terms of its impact on increasing their knowledge about
intimate partner violence (IPV) and modifying their gender stereotypical and
tolerant attitudes towards IPV with the ultimate goal being the decrease of
their tolerance towards IPV. The duration of the school-based intervention was
6 teaching hours and was implemented in two classrooms of students attending
the 3rd grade of Gymnasium (n = 46), 14-15 years old (boys, n = 17, girls, n =
29). A simple within subjects experimental design was used with the
independent variable being the time of measurement (pre-post intervention).
Pre-post-comparisons
indicated that students’ gender stereotypical attitudes that they held before
moved towards a non gender stereotypical direction after the intervention in
regards to the majority of the dimensions assessed.
Students’ knowledge about types of IPV was also improved after the
intervention. The results about
rejection of myths surrounding the IPV phenomenon and the observed decrease in
students’ attitudes
justifying physical violence perpetrated by a boy towards a girl and vise versa
were also considered as promising. After the intervention students’ tolerance
towards sexual violence was significantly decreased in 5 out of 9 statements
where a boy is justified to press a girl to have sex with him, only in the 1st
classroom. Generally, significant differences were observed between the
students of the two classrooms
in terms of both the baseline and post-test measure which were always in favor
of the 1st classroom’s students. The impact evaluation of this brief
intervention showed that it increased adolescents’ knowledge and decreased the
tolerance of most of their attitudes justifying IPV. Consequently, it is
suggested that
this intervention should be replicated but in larger and more lengthy scale and
further research to be conducted for safer conclusions to be drawn.
Keywords:
Primary prevention, Intimate partner violence, Intervention, Evaluation, Adolescents
Number of references:
127
Number of pages:
xii, 174
