津巴布韦的童婚与粮食不安全之间的关联:参与式混合方法研究
Katherine Gambir1, Abel Blessing Matsika2, Anna Panagiotou3
1Women's Refugee Commission, 15 W 37th Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10019, USA. KatherineG@wrcommission.org.
BMC public health
|January 3, 2024
概括
粮食不安全导致津巴布韦的童婚,女孩和父母因贫困和机会有限而做出结婚决定. 教育可以减轻这种风险.
科学领域:
- 社会科学 社会科学 社会科学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 性别研究是性别研究.
背景情况:
- 童婚是全球危机,与性别不平等和对女童的歧视有关.
- 粮食不安全危机越来越多地被认为是童婚的驱动因素和结果,尽管这些联系需要进一步阐明.
- 这项研究调查了在津巴布韦Chiredzi的粮食不安全和童婚实践之间的复杂关系.
研究的目的:
- 了解粮食不安全如何影响津巴布韦Chiredzi的童婚实践.
- 探索粮食不安全程度如何提高青少年女孩童婚的风险.
- 为了检查粮食不安全如何影响儿童婚姻决策的护理人员和青少年.
主要方法:
- 采用混合方法,包括参与者主导的讲故事 (SenseMaker®) 和关键告密者采访.
- 分析了SenseMaker数据解释中的视觉模式,并对转录的采访进行了主题分析.
- 在更广泛的性别和社会经济不平等背景下研究了这种关系.
主要成果:
- 粮食不安全成为Chiredzi社区成员的主要担忧.
- 粮食不安全被确定为影响父母和青少年女孩关于童婚的决定的关键因素.
- 由于生存选择有限,青少年开始结婚,贫困,虐待和父母移民加剧了这种情况,COVID-19和气候危险加剧了粮食不安全和童婚.
结论:
- 人道主义环境中的童婚计划必须由社区主导,并具有性别转变性,以解决潜在的不平等问题.
- 编程应解决青少年在粮食不安全环境中面临的各种风险和现实.
- 干预措施必须加强青少年女孩,家庭和社区的能力,以防止童婚.
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