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040 _aAFVC
100 _aNdungu, Jane
_910850
245 _aResearchers or practitioners’ opinion of the possibilities for creating virtual safe social spaces for violence prevention interventions for young people
_cJane Ndungu, Magnolia Ngcobo-Sithole, Andrew Gibbs
260 _bOxford Academic,
_c2022
500 _aHealth Education Research, 2022, First published online 29 March 2022
520 _aIntimate partner violence (IPV) is a global concern. Interventions designed to prevent IPV are often participatory in nature, implemented in face-to-face settings and seek to create ‘safe social spaces’. We however do not fully understand how safe social spaces can be created in online spaces. Our study sought to understand the possibility of creating safe social spaces online, supportive of participatory interventions, from the perspective of those developing and implementing IPV prevention interventions. We conducted in-depth interviews with a global sample of 20 researchers and practitioners. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic network analysis. We found mixed results about the possibility of creating safe social spaces online. Researchers and practitioners raised issues such as sharing of devices, the difficulties in developing trust and a sense of community online, challenges in having privacy and confidentiality online and difficulty in reading non-verbal cues as some of the key considerations when creating online safe social spaces. Younger researchers and practitioners were more optimistic about creating safe social spaces online. Our results show that the creation of safe social spaces online is complex and requires further investigation. (Authors' abstract. Record #7611
650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 _aINTERVENTION
_9326
650 _aONLINE TOOLS
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650 _aPREVENTION
_9458
650 _aSAFETY
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650 _aSOCIAL MEDIA
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650 _aYOUNG PEOPLE
_9660
651 _aINTERNATIONAL
_93624
651 _aSOUTH AFRICA
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700 _aNgcobo-Sithole, Magnolia
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700 _aGibbs, Andrew
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773 0 _tHealth Education Research, 2022, First published online 29 March 2022
830 _aHealth Education Research
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyac008
_zDOI: 10.1093/her/cyac008
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_cARTICLE
_hpānui-april-2022