Professionals’ perception of intimate partner violence in young people: a qualitative study in northern Spain

Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health problem with devastating effects on young women's health. These negative effects increase when the exposure to IPV lasts for a long time and exposure at an early age increases the risk of adult IPV. Despite efforts made in the last...

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Autores: Maquibar Landa, Amaia, Vives Cases, Carmen, Hurtig, Anna Karin, Goicolea Julián, María Isabel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:intimate partner violence
young people
professional role
qualitative research
dating violence
gender inequality
romantic love
risk behavior
women
prevention
health
impact
policy
youth
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spelling Professionals’ perception of intimate partner violence in young people: a qualitative study in northern SpainMaquibar Landa, AmaiaVives Cases, CarmenHurtig, Anna KarinGoicolea Julián, María Isabelintimate partner violenceyoung peopleprofessional rolequalitative researchdating violencegender inequalityromantic loverisk behaviorwomenpreventionhealthimpactpolicyyouthBackground: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health problem with devastating effects on young women's health. These negative effects increase when the exposure to IPV lasts for a long time and exposure at an early age increases the risk of adult IPV. Despite efforts made in the last few decades, data show little progress has been made towards its reduction. Thus, the aim of the study reported here is to explore professionals' perceptions regarding intimate partner violence (IPV) among young people, focusing on the characteristics of the phenomenon and their perceptions about existing programmes and campaigns aimed at addressing it. Methods: Twelve professionals from education, health and municipal social services were interviewed. All but one of the interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed according to the methodology of inductive thematic analysis, with the support of Atlas. ti software. The transcripts were read several times and coded line by line. Afterwards, codes were grouped into themes. The developed themes were refined into two phases with the participation of all the authors. Results: From the analysis, the following three themes were identified: "A false sense of gender equity", "IPV among young people: subtle, daily and normalized", and "Mass media campaigns do not fit young people's needs". According to the participants, psychological abuse in the form of controlling behaviour by their partners is the most common type of IPV young women are exposed to, although exposure to other types of IPV was also acknowledged. This violence was described as something subtle, daily and normalized and, consequently, not something that is easy to recognize for the girls that are exposed to it, nor for adults working with young people. Conclusions: The study participants showed good knowledge of the characteristics IPV has among young people. This knowledge was reflected in locally implemented IPV prevention projects, which they considered successful in addressing young people's needs. However, these interventions lacked formal evaluation, political support and continuation. The study participants did not believe that nationwide mass media campaigns realistically reflected the specific characteristics of IPV among young people. Thus, participants perceived these campaigns to be ineffective.This work was partly supported by the Umea Center for Global Health Research, funded by FAS, the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (Grant no. 2006-1512).Biomed Central201820182017info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/27508reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoIngléshttps://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12978-017-0348-8info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise statedAtribución 3.0 Españaoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/275082026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Professionals’ perception of intimate partner violence in young people: a qualitative study in northern Spain
title Professionals’ perception of intimate partner violence in young people: a qualitative study in northern Spain
spellingShingle Professionals’ perception of intimate partner violence in young people: a qualitative study in northern Spain
Maquibar Landa, Amaia
intimate partner violence
young people
professional role
qualitative research
dating violence
gender inequality
romantic love
risk behavior
women
prevention
health
impact
policy
youth
title_short Professionals’ perception of intimate partner violence in young people: a qualitative study in northern Spain
title_full Professionals’ perception of intimate partner violence in young people: a qualitative study in northern Spain
title_fullStr Professionals’ perception of intimate partner violence in young people: a qualitative study in northern Spain
title_full_unstemmed Professionals’ perception of intimate partner violence in young people: a qualitative study in northern Spain
title_sort Professionals’ perception of intimate partner violence in young people: a qualitative study in northern Spain
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Maquibar Landa, Amaia
Vives Cases, Carmen
Hurtig, Anna Karin
Goicolea Julián, María Isabel
author Maquibar Landa, Amaia
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Vives Cases, Carmen
Hurtig, Anna Karin
Goicolea Julián, María Isabel
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Hurtig, Anna Karin
Goicolea Julián, María Isabel
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv intimate partner violence
young people
professional role
qualitative research
dating violence
gender inequality
romantic love
risk behavior
women
prevention
health
impact
policy
youth
topic intimate partner violence
young people
professional role
qualitative research
dating violence
gender inequality
romantic love
risk behavior
women
prevention
health
impact
policy
youth
description Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health problem with devastating effects on young women's health. These negative effects increase when the exposure to IPV lasts for a long time and exposure at an early age increases the risk of adult IPV. Despite efforts made in the last few decades, data show little progress has been made towards its reduction. Thus, the aim of the study reported here is to explore professionals' perceptions regarding intimate partner violence (IPV) among young people, focusing on the characteristics of the phenomenon and their perceptions about existing programmes and campaigns aimed at addressing it. Methods: Twelve professionals from education, health and municipal social services were interviewed. All but one of the interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed according to the methodology of inductive thematic analysis, with the support of Atlas. ti software. The transcripts were read several times and coded line by line. Afterwards, codes were grouped into themes. The developed themes were refined into two phases with the participation of all the authors. Results: From the analysis, the following three themes were identified: "A false sense of gender equity", "IPV among young people: subtle, daily and normalized", and "Mass media campaigns do not fit young people's needs". According to the participants, psychological abuse in the form of controlling behaviour by their partners is the most common type of IPV young women are exposed to, although exposure to other types of IPV was also acknowledged. This violence was described as something subtle, daily and normalized and, consequently, not something that is easy to recognize for the girls that are exposed to it, nor for adults working with young people. Conclusions: The study participants showed good knowledge of the characteristics IPV has among young people. This knowledge was reflected in locally implemented IPV prevention projects, which they considered successful in addressing young people's needs. However, these interventions lacked formal evaluation, political support and continuation. The study participants did not believe that nationwide mass media campaigns realistically reflected the specific characteristics of IPV among young people. Thus, participants perceived these campaigns to be ineffective.
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